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Unseen Creatures Promises to Be a New Type of Brewery for Miami-Dade

A new brewery specializing in farmhouse-inspired wild ales has found a home in Miami. Later this year, Unseen Creatures Brewing & Blending husband-and-wife cofounders Marco and Vicky Leyte-Vidal will offer Miami-Dade a new kind of brewery in the heart of the Bird Road District. More than two years in the making, the Unseen Creatures brewery and taproom will be located off SW 45th Court in a 5,300-square-foot building just blocks from Lincoln’s Beard Brewing.
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Five Signs Miami Should Just Fully Decriminalize Marijuana Already

Miami-Dade kinda decriminalized marijuana in 2015. That year, the county commission gave police officers the option of issuing civil tickets, like traffic fines, instead of arresting people caught with 20 grams of pot or less. The measure was hailed as a massive win for justice-reform advocates, who rightfully argue that pot possession is harmless and not worth jail time.
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GoCompare.com’s List of Florida’s Most Filmed Locations Misses Some Miami Classics

There's something genuinely exciting about seeing part of your hometown or even your home state on the big screen, especially when you're from South Florida. Most movies wind up set in New York City or Los Angeles, and more and more of them are being filmed in Atlanta or Vancouver, but there are plenty of films where you'll find perfectly recognizable stretches of Miami's beaches or familiar streets in Coconut Grove.
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Mason, Midtown’s New Late-Night Diner, Opens Monday

Beaker & Gray's chef Brian Nasajon will open his second restaurant, Mason, on Monday, June 4. Housed in the former Gigi space, adjacent to the Shops at Midtown Miami, the late-night diner serves comfort food, from bagels and breads to smoked deli meats and sweets, until 2 a.m. daily. "The idea is to bring...
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Udonis Haslem Should Take His Talents to China

Udonis Haslem wants to continue playing basketball. Confirmed. You can forget about him hanging it up. Return all of those golf clubs and fishing lure retirement gifts — he'll be putting on a jersey next season. Which jersey Udonis dons, though, is a surprising story now. Even more surprising is the fact that his jersey could belong to a team in China, Europe, or any another country overseas.
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Miami Party Boats Can Be Lethal

When Cesar Meneses arrived at the marina and saw the yacht he'd chartered to celebrate his 24th birthday, he tried to cancel. As a Miami resident, he'd rented boats before. This one, a sleek, 91-foot yacht with its name, Miami Vice, spelled out on the stern in the font used...
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Miami-Dade Commissioners Vote to Expand Use of Questionable Gunshot-Detection Technology

In 2012, Miami-Dade County became one of the first places to test a gunshot-detection technology called ShotSpotter, which uses acoustic sensors to alert police to gunfire. But after a year of the pilot program, the county abandoned the system over concerns about its effectiveness: Officers were able to confirm only 50 shootings of 1,000 supposedly detected by ShotSpotter, and the department couldn't point to a single crime the technology helped solve.
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Miami Welcomes J. Cole, the Best Worst Rapper in the World

This country does not do earnestness well. We would rather turn you into a meme than lend you an understanding ear. We have trouble digesting sincerity unless it’s wrapped in something less vulnerable. Perhaps that’s part of the reason some folks have so much trouble with J. Cole. His...
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Video: False Report of Gunshots Sparks Minor Stampede Near Ocean Drive

After another year of fear-mongering news reports and an overwhelming police presence at Memorial Day festivities in South Beach, the worst gun-related incident of the weekend came after a false rumor of gunfire. A brief panic erupted around 8:15 last night near Ocean Drive, sparking a minor stampede that left one person injured.
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Florida’s Food-Stamp Crackdown Increased Arrests and Cost Money, Study Says

In 1996, Democrats and Republicans of all stripes were united in what they then referred to as "welfare reform," a project designed to make it more difficult for low-income Americans to obtain benefits such as food stamps or Medicaid. By making it harder to get assistance, politicos argued, the poor would try harder to get work. After passing a law banning felons with drug convictions from receiving food stamps, the feds said the reforms would also strike a blow to drug crimes.
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What’s in Your Weed? Touring Florida’s Marijuana Testing Lab

Medical marijuana is not at all like other prescribed drugs. It's a living, cultivated product. Whereas most pharmaceuticals are mass-produced according to recipes that result from chemical testing and engineering, cannabis is a crop. And just like tomatoes or soybeans, there's no real guarantee that one harvest will be the same as another.