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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday Since its 2009 inception, Miami Beach Pride has simply been a blast. The 2019 edition looks like it won't buck that trend. After attracting more than 145,000 people to its events in 2018, Pride this year will boast special events, social mixers, a VIP gala, a two-day festival, and...
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Mark Richt Has Earned Some Patience From the Miami Hurricanes Fan Base

One year ago, Canes fans were applauding Mark Richt for reinventing the way we eat sandwiches and thanking him for being the savior that the University of Miami football program desperately needed. Fast-forward to this season and the narrative on social media and Hurricanes message boards is that Richt should...
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Is a West Palm Beach Doctor Heir to the Indian Throne?

Dr. Lord Lee-Benner has seen the dark side of the Sunshine State: its schizophrenics, neurotics, addicts, depressives, illiterate bipolars, disturbed teens, even psychotic ex-ministers. Many of the indigent patients who come to see him at Community Health Center of West Palm Beach, a nonprofit clinic where he volunteers as a...
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Here’s a Trailer for Screwball, Billy Corben’s Hilarious New A-Rod Doc

At its slimy heart, the Biogenesis steroid scandal boiled down to a bunch of tanning-salon aficionados and small-time South Florida crooks scamming one another — all while bringing down the biggest performance-enhancing drug ring in the history of professional sports. So it makes sense that in retelling the tale...
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ICE Is Getting Legal Advice From South Florida’s Private-Prison Giant, Emails Show

Before the federal government sued California in an attempt to open the state to private-prison contractors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought the advice of GEO Group, the Boca Raton-based, multibillion-dollar private-detention-facility corporation. Mother Jones broke news of the close ties between GEO and ICE's legal team this past Friday. New Times has...
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Rick Scott Ducks Trump but Lets George W. Bush Fundraise for His Senate Run

For all of Donald Trump's ills, he has not done anything (yet) as evil as lying to the American public in order to start a continent-destabilizing war that killed 500,000 to 1 million Iraqis. George W. Bush is a monster who jump-started the NSA's internet-spying apparatus, launched America into a perpetual state of war across the globe...
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Florida Greyhound Racing Has a Complicated Legacy

Except for a scattering of white-haired regulars, the grandstand overlooking the old dog track at the Palm Beach Kennel Club is almost empty on a cold-for-Florida December day. Wearing hearing aids and World War II veterans' hats, a group of four long-timers holds court near the top of the stands...
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South Florida Cop Wore “QAnon” Conspiracy Patch With Mike Pence

Vice President Mike Pence arrived at Fort-Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport just after noon on Friday. He was greeted by a Broward Sheriff's Office SWAT team that included one cop in a #QAnon conspiracy-theory patch. #QAnon is, of course, the batshit-insane, 4Chan-based conspiracy theory that claims Donald Trump is secretly fighting a...
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How the Murder of a Palm Beach Doctor Brought the United States and Cuba Together

On July 19, 2015, detectives arrived at Ronald O. Schwartz's secluded Jupiter Farms home and found him lying on his bedroom floor, his head haloed by a pool of blood. Two back doors were open, and the entire house had been ransacked. A .40-caliber shell casing lay near him. The 65-year-old retired gynecologist and multimillionaire was dead.
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Tony Albelo’s Quirky Sense of Humor Is Transforming Wynwood

It was one day before April Fool's, but this was no prank. Around 7 p.m. March 31, 2012, the Miami Entertainment Complex on NW 14th Street was filled with smoke. Chefs from about 30 restaurants had fired up grills inside the giant warehouse for a burger event called the Grind...