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Miami Soul Legend Betty Wright Kicks Off National YoungArts Week

When 20 National YoungArts voice finalists in pop, jazz, classical, and singer/songwriter categories take the stage at New World Center January 7, they’ll surely wow the audience — which will include YoungArts Week voice master teacher Betty Wright. The soul singer with deep gospel roots and an impressive seven-octave range...
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How Las Rosas Became Miami’s New Beacon for Live, Local Music

Grand Central, Tobacco Road, Bardot, the Stage, Vagabond, Bar Black — the list of Miami music spaces lost too soon is long. Now, on an unassuming corner in Allapattah just west of I-95, a low, flat rectangle of a building holds Las Rosas, one of the city’s newest platforms for live music. Its success has largely been the result of a group of passionate old-timers hustling to keep their dreams for the city alive.
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DeSantis Already Compared Gillum to a Monkey on Fox News

After last night's primary results made it official, Floridians assumed newly minted GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, a Confederate-flag bumper-sticker come to life, would run a wild, dog-whistling, and entirely Trumpian campaign against Democrat Andrew Gillum. But people perhaps didn't expect DeSantis to start throwing around racial slurs this early...
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More Than 200 McClatchy Employees Take Buyouts; CEO Calls Efforts Good “for the Future of Our Republic” UPDATED

McClatchy Company CEO Craig Forman announced Wednesday "a bit fewer" than 225 employees had accepted buyout offers and would leave newspapers across the country. Among them are longtime and highly accomplished Miami voices in the gay community, in state politics, and in sports. Also departing is one of the nation's most important reporters covering international politics.
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Miami New Times‘ 2018 Midterm Election Live-Blog

Donald Trump has, it seems, been president now for 33 years. Election Night 2016 (shudder) feels like a century ago. So much is different now: Our politics haVE become even more diseased than usual. Corruption and racism no longer disqualify you from holding office. An accused rapist sits on the...
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In Parkland Speaks, Students Grieve a Life-Changing Tragedy on the Page

Anna Kasperski spent the first seconds of 2019 surrounded by people she loves. "I have three really close friends, and we went over to one of their houses. I slept over, and we rung in the new year that way," she explains. "I never really spent New Year's with my friends before. In years past, I just stayed at home. But this year, I thought, Why don't we be together?..."
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Kunst Is Conehead Royalty

The word kunst means to "art" in German and comes dangerously close to reading like a vulgar term for genitalia in English. Odds are the eccentric Miami drag performer who adopted the word as a stage name is thrilled and tickled by this seemingly contradictory duality. Kunst has taken an...