More than a year ago, a group of City of Miami Fire-Rescue employees got canned after committing what looks, on paper at least, to have been a racist attack on a black firefighter. In November 2017, six firefighters were terminated after they allegedly took their black colleague's family photographs, drew...
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Fifteen-year-old Rick Naya was camping with a friend in South Florida’s J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area when he spotted a cargo plane flying above, dumping dozens of marijuana bales into the woods below. It was like a gift from the ganja gods. The year was 1975, and Florida was becoming...
Richecarde Dumay was one of the kindest, selfless teenagers on the Miami Edison Senior High practice field. When he wasn't playing soccer or kicking for the football team, the 17-year-old star athlete supported players that donned the Red Raiders colors in other sports. You would catch him handing out water...
Despite collecting work from eight women of Latinx and/or Caribbean origin and descent, Oolite Arts' next exhibition, "It Will Never Become Quite Familiar to You," draws its title from one of America's favorite 19th-century white dudes: Henry David Thoreau.
The path leading to Rick Moon’s apartment is lush and green. It’s 1 p.m., the sun is high, the temperature is full-on summer, and the flat horizon of Biscayne Bay glitters behind an equally tranquil community swimming pool shaded with palm trees.
It seems as though that old saying — nothing lasts forever — rings more true in Miami than it does elsewhere. Our music culture is no exception: The city's scene endured a number of heavy losses over the last ten years, from the passing of young artists before their time to the shuttering...
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Two men are suing Officer Carlos Angulo and the Miami-Dade Police Department in federal court for what they claim is a pattern of racist violence perpetuated by MDPD.
The Miami New Drama production, playing April 25 to May 19, captures the spirit of the town through singer Betsayda Machado and La Parranda El Clavo, a real-life eight-person party band from a small village in Barlovento, Venezuela.
The jailhouse surveillance video clearly shows the deputy violently wrenching inmate Audra West up out of a chair, throwing her around the room, and dragging her into a strip-search room. Other female deputies then run into the room with the door shutting behind them. West says that inside the room,...
In December, 38-year-old Mabel Perez-Ordonez received good news. A letter from Miami-Dade Police stated she'd been the victim of indecent exposure. That meant the Nicaraguan native would be eligible for a U visa — a path to legal status for undocumented crime victims who cooperate with cops. The Hialeah mother...
Empire Ink celebrates its 10th year in South Florida by opening a buzzworthy (pun intended, all around) new spot in Wynwood.
As we tore into a maze of streets outside San Juan, Agent Victor O. Acevedo pulled a firearm from his belt and placed it on his lap as he looked for any threats that might surface. Acevedo, an enthusiastic eight-year veteran of Puerto Rico's narcotics department, had agreed to let me ride along with him one day to see a raid in action.
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Sakaya Kitchen and Blackbrick chef and owner Richard Hales will undergo emergency brain surgery this morning following a procedure to remove an 8-year-old brain tumor at the beginning of this year.
After Ultra was forced to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit from a festivalgoer who was beaten up by officers including former union boss Javier Ortiz, the controversy-prone cop was banned from working future editions of the EDM festival. Well, what a difference a few years make: Ortiz, now a...
Wayne Messam is, for reasons that are difficult to explain, still running for president. When he announced his run, the mayor of tiny Miramar, Florida, tried to position himself as a Pete Buttigieg-style outsider, the sort of political newcomer who wouldn't be indebted to Washington elites and could spout tough truths on the campaign trail.
Last year, the City of Miami kicked Ultra Music Festival, one of the best-known electronic music festivals in the world, out of its longtime home at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. And now, after what can only be described as a challenging edition on Virginia Key this past March, Ultra's...
October If you can’t snap a mesmerizing Instagram photo from 34 beautifully crafted lantern exhibits, well, that’s on you. Luminosa Festival of Lights will make the Jungle Island grounds glow this fall in a partnership with the Chinese lantern festival heavyweights Zigong Lantern Group and China Lantern International. This is...
It was as if the bridge appeared out of nowhere. Carlos Badillo had driven past Florida International University before, but on March 15, 2018, he noticed something he hadn't seen just a week earlier. It was a little before 2 p.m., and he was driving east on Tamiami Trail with his wife, Martha Plaza Cevallos. Up ahead, a 174-foot bridge had been erected in front of the Modesto A. Maidique Campus.
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Jerry Falwell Jr. inherited Liberty University, a Tennesee Evangelical Christian college, from his dad, Jerry Sr., who founded the school to create, what he hoped, would become a Christian competitor to the Ivy Leagues. Instead, Falwell Jr. is, reportedly, in the process of running the place into the ground. According...
A pop-up burger restaurant that's been hitting the streets of Miami since October, USBS (United States Burger Service) was inspired by a brainstorming session among friends Dave Bailey, Agustin Gamboa, and Michael Mayta.
The Miami Beach Convention Center's makeover is a stunner. So naturally, the public art incorporated into and around the renovation has to equally wow onlookers. The first six works selected for the site by the Miami Beach Art in Public Places program are designed to achieve that goal. The...
The press leaped on the Santa Anita story — and in the process brought the sport's stubbornly devil-may-care establishment to its knees.