Reports on the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children outside Miami tend to fall into two categories. The federal government likes to claim the place is a clean, happy, jovial temporary dorm for immigrant kids waiting to enter the United States. The kids themselves, however, consistently keep telling lawyers and advocates that the place sucks, makes them depressed, and is leaving some of them with lasting trauma.
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The cannabis compound Cannabidiol (CBD) is beneficial for treating everything from addiction to arthritis, but cops are incarcerating people over it in the name of public safety. Some recent examples: Last month, a 69-year-old grandmother Hester Jordan Burkhalter was arrested in Disney World after guards found a vial of CBD...
Joe Talbot and Stella Meghie — who headlined Miami Film Festival as Knight Heroes — shared their filmmaking experiences with the city's film community.
When an Amnesty International delegation visited the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in April, there were at least 97 children who had no one to care for them in the United States. In a comment that stunned the Amnesty group, the Homestead facility's then-program director Leslie Wood said it was better for kids like them to be deported than placed with someone for the purpose of keeping them in the country because they might be trafficked.
Miami has it all: Money, beauty, creativity, and an unflappable will. Yet for too long, the city was seen as little more than an outpost for celebrity chefs looking to open a spot designed to extract money from spendthrift tourists. No more.
Just in time for Art Basel 2019, Miami gallerist Inigo Philbrick has been fingered as the villain in multiple lawsuits playing out in New York City, London, and South Florida.
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Ralph Andrade, a registered lobbyist for Beach Towing who has also worked for Tremont, is fighting to stop a City of Miami Beach audit allegedly showing rampant violations by the two companies. The latest audit is expected to be released next week, and, apparently, the findings are not favorable to the tow-truck industry.
Federal agents used limited parking outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Miramar as a pretext to racially profile drivers earlier today, activists say.
The new Liberty Square signals the gentrification of another historically black neighborhood.
Food-loving locals in Downtown Miami now have a new French restaurant that's worth checking out. Since it opened in January, chef George Berger's Mirabelle has been pulling a loyal crowd of regulars drawn by the dishes listed on its chalkboard menu. An award-winning pastry chef from Lyon in France, Berger owned...
Premios Juventud, Univision’s youth awards show, will glam up the red carpet at Miami’s Watsco Center July 18. Hosted by the boy band CNCO, Argentine artist Lali, and Mexican-American model and TV presenter Alejandra Espinoza, the 16th-annual awards show features 124 nominees in 24 categories that span music, fashion, dance, social media, and other categories.
A member moving to Hong Kong would be the death knell for most Miami bands. But the indie-rockers of Modernage are continuing to put out music even with guitarist Xavier Alexander living half a world away. Proof of this long-distance relationship comes with their new music video, "Sideways," premiering below.
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February 14, 2018 was meant to be a Valentine's Day like any other for the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Instead, a day that's meant to celebrate love in all its iterations became forever entwined with scenes of horror.
With its new rule eliminating asylum for most migrants at the southwestern border with Mexico, the Trump administration has bolted shut one of the few remaining legal entryways for Venezuelans seeking safety in the Unites States.
A whole lot of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are visiting the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children this week. Not all of them, however, appear to have concrete plans of action as to what to do about the kids inside the shelter. But during a visit today, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren made a straightforward demand: Shut the place down.
This year's Rum Renaissance Festival filled the historic Coral Gables Woman's Club will fans of the spirit. Though rum is usually associated with sipping cocktails under swaying palm trees in the Caribbean, the United States is home to some wonderful rums. From Tennessee whiskey country to Islamorada, here are some fine domestic rums to try.
For weeks, fans of Mojo Donuts have tried to figure out what the shop meant by its "WTF" posts on social media.
Not too long ago, this was peak-activity time for basketball in Miami. The Heat made the NBA Finals four straight seasons between 2011 and 2014, meaning things reached maximum playoff-white hotness on Biscayne Boulevard right about now. These days, things have died down a tad. Dwyane Wade has retired and the...
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A new report has damned global agribusiness and called for drastic changes in the way humanity produces and consumes food if we are to have any hope of staving off the disasters from accelerating climate change. The report, released in August by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), comes...
The City of Miami has decided to bring Ultra Music Festival back to Bayfront Park.
Now that the band itself is well past its 1990s heyday and its members are entering middle age, Pryor is still using other people's relationships as musical inspiration.
Under constant international pressure for the hellish conditions they helped create in Venezuela, members of the regime of strongman Nicolás Maduro never pass up an opportunity to point out the flaws of nations criticizing them.