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The Faces of Miami New Times' People Issue 2016

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Ray & Shannon Allen: Healthy sweethearts

This is the seventh year in a row that New Times has turned over a whole issue to fête some of the most amazing personalities in South Florida through stunning portraits. The truth is, every year it seems harder to narrow the list to just 25 people. There’s Rick Ross, who reinvented Miami hip-hop for a new decade, and Virgo, a boundary-breaking artist merging electronic music and experimental filmmaking. There’s also a satire-penning warrior for social change, an ice-cream guru turned tech visionary, and a Republican pundit gone viral by taking on Trump. This is South Florida, after all, and our people are as unique as our landscape.

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Sweet Liberty Celebrates John Lermayer Day With Bar Pop-Ups and Music

By Amber Love Bond
Jun 19, 2019

This past June 6 marked the first anniversary of the passing of John Lermayer, but Miami can remember the charismatic bartender this weekend with John Lermayer Day.
Virgo Helps Celebrate Our People Issue With Facebook Live Concert

By Miami New Times staff
Nov 16, 2016

In case you haven't seen yet, our 2016 People Issue went live online yesterday. And this Thursday, the annual compilation will hit stands all over Miami. We're pretty darn proud of this one, to be honest. So to celebrate, we've asked one of the members of our 2016 People Issue...
Poorgrrrl Is Miami's Performer Extraordinaire

By Jerry Iannelli
Nov 15, 2016

When the early-morning hours hit on weekends in Miami, a certain ambient sound tends to waft through the main streets. Locals who've spent the night in a club know it well: In Miami Beach around 3 or 4 a.m., a warm, fuzzy throb of pulsating bass music floats into the...
Ray and Shannon Allen Offer Organic Food at Fast-Casual Eatery Grown

By Laine Doss
Nov 15, 2016

Ray Allen recently announced his official retirement from the NBA, but the king of three-pointers already has a second career with his wife Shannon. The couple opened Grown, an organic fast-casual eatery in June. Since then, the place has, well, grown — adding two locations at Hard Rock Stadium. In...
Miami's Intergalactic Visitor, Virgo, Merges Music and Technology Like No One Else

By Jose D. Duran
Nov 15, 2016

In Virgo's first music video, "Disappear," she sings just as the sun begins to break on the horizon, and later she submerges herself in the Atlantic Ocean as the folds of her white dress dance in the water. It's the perfect image for an enigmatic songwriter who's transformed herself in...
After Alter, Brad Kilgore Cooks Up a Brava New World

By Zachary Fagenson
Nov 15, 2016

Before opening Wynwood's wildly popular Alter, chef/owner Brad Kilgore was in a predicament. The question was whether the restaurant should serve what's worked best throughout his career — meticulous dishes peppered with exotic ingredients — or a rougher, more rustic style of cuisine. The latter would be the kind of...
Poplife's Jake Jefferson on Miami's Party Scene, "Literally the Wild West"

By Kat Bein
Nov 15, 2016

Jake Jefferson has always put music first. In the eighth grade, he snuck out to a Cypress Hill concert, made his way backstage, smoked weed with rapper B-Real, and helped DJ Muggs pack his turntables. In college, when he was just 12 credits short of a Florida International University degree,...
Michael Capponi Went From SoBe Party Promoter to Haiti's Guardian Angel

By Jerry Iannelli
Nov 15, 2016

The day after Hurricane Matthew hit western Haiti, the country's main airport stopped accepting flights. But across the border, the storm hadn't touched the Dominican Republic. So Michael Capponi, a Miami Beach nightclub promoter-turned-humanitarian, chartered a flight from South Florida to the DR and then hopped a small private plane...
Lemon City Teas Makes Miami-Inspired Brews From Little Haiti

By Clarissa Buch
Nov 15, 2016

Huddled inside a small dorm room at the University of Florida, Gail Hamilton and Natalia Napoleon De Bens dreamed about starting a business together. More than ten years later, a brainstorm about a flavor-packed tea bag made it a reality. For the past two years, Hamilton, De Bens, and two...
Dr. Hansel Tookes Fought for Four Years to Create Florida's First Needle Exchange

By Jess Swanson
Nov 15, 2016

When Gov. Rick Scott signed the Infectious Disease Elimination Act into law this past March, Dr. Hansel Tookes nearly fell off his rolling chair. Tookes had encountered such stiff resistance over the past four years while fighting for Florida's first needle exchange program that he'd nearly given up. But now...
Ana Navarro Took on Donald Trump

By Ciara LaVelle
Nov 15, 2016

Ana Navarro won the hearts of thousands of Americans by saying "pussy" on television. In her most famous clip, the CNN commentator launched an exasperated verbal attack on Scottie Nell Hughes, a supporter of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, who tut-tutted Navarro for quoting Trump's now-infamous "grab 'em by the pussy"...
Funky Buddha's Ryan Sentz Is a Bit Freaked Out by His Brewery's Success

By Sara Ventiera
Nov 15, 2016

His brewing career began with Mr. Beer kits he bought during college at the University of Central Florida. His first brown ale was, to be generous, drinkable. "I remember having to force it down," says Ryan Sentz, now 40. "You're proud you made it, and you're trying to convince yourself...
Transgender Supermodel Lauren Foster Fights for LGBTQ Rights in Miami

By Jess Swanson
Nov 15, 2016

When Lauren Foster was outed as transgender in tabloid magazines in the 1980s, the Vogue model thought her career was over. Rather than slink into the shadows, though, the striking South African blonde mustered the courage to own her gender identity at a time when the Zeitgeist wasn't nearly as...
Felecia Hatcher Took an Unlikely Path, From Popsicle Visionary to Tech Evangelist

By Tim Elfrink
Nov 15, 2016

It takes a special kind of tenacity to go from educational consultant to popsicle innovator to tech guru. But that's just how Felecia Hatcher was raised. "I opened a popsicle business, and my brother is a standup comedian," Hatcher says with a laugh. "Our parents have always supported us totally...
As Kazoots Go on Hiatus, Singer Inez Barlatier Works on Solo Projects

By Jessica Lipscomb
Nov 15, 2016

From the time she was 12 years old, Inez Barlatier would drive to Miami Beach every Friday night with her dad and younger sister. For three hours, her family's musical group would play to tourists dining at Tap Tap, a colorful Haitian restaurant on Fifth Street. Murals by artists from...
Miami Was Begging for Satire, and Justin Wales Delivered

By Ryan Pfeffer
Nov 15, 2016

Chances are, a Plantain article has probably come across your Facebook feed by now. The 6-month-old Miami satire website has gone viral by offering cutting takes on everything from local politics ("Summer Camp Run by Jeb Bush Sued After Leaving Child Behind") to transit ("Miami-Dade to Create Freeway 'Texting Lane'...
Yo-Yo King and Commissioner Ken Russell Cleans Up Miami

By Jessica Lipscomb
Nov 15, 2016

When he ran for Miami City Commission last year, Ken Russell's opponents mockingly called him the "Boy Wonder." As a newcomer to politics, the 42-year-old was seen by critics as little more than a hipster activist with a penchant for Hacky Sack. "That nickname came about during the campaign I...
Ten Years After Port of Miami, Rick Ross Is Still Hustlin'

By Kat Bein
Nov 15, 2016

It's a rough climb from the gutters of Carol City to the top of the Billboard charts. You've got to take your hatchet and clear the path of snakes and weeds. Good thing Rick Ross is on his fitness tip. "It's just like hiking for the first time," the Teflon...
Sigi Ammann's Rock-Star Resemblance Is Far From the Most Interesting Thing About Him

By Ryan Pfeffer
Nov 15, 2016

Tucked in the back of the Fillmore Miami Beach, Sigi Ammann's office is enough to give any neat freak anxiety. Posters from nearly every one of the venue's past decade of shows coat the walls — some autographed, some so badly worn it's impossible to tell Jay Z from AC/DC...
John Lermayer's Cocktails Have Transformed South Florida

By Laine Doss
Nov 15, 2016

One of the founding fathers of Miami's cocktail scene, New York native John Lermayer forever changed the landscape of South Florida bars when he opened the Delano's Florida Room. The place brought well-crafted libations to a town best known for neon-colored frozen blender drinks poured from a box. Since then,...
After Fatal Scaffolding Collapse, Muralist Hoxxoh Fights Tragedy With Art

By Brittany Shammas
Nov 15, 2016

The first couple of walls Douglas Hoekzema ever painted were at his high school. He thinks the murals are still there today: three large faces and the school's mascot, a shark. Almost 20 years after leaving Spanish River High, the artist now known as Hoxxoh has graduated to bigger things...
Alejandro Gonzalez's Liquid Nitrogen Brings Down the House

By Antonia Farzan
Nov 15, 2016

The business card lists his job title as "atmospheric manipulator." That's how Alejandro Gonzalez describes what he does as the owner and founder of Kryogenifex, which creates special effects using liquid nitrogen. Unless you've been to one of the many Miami-area clubs that cools partiers using puffy white clouds of...
The Wynwood Yard Is Della Heiman's Urban Oasis

By Antonia Farzan
Nov 15, 2016

When Della Heiman, an Ohio native, started at Harvard Business School in the fall of 2012, she envisioned following three generations of her family into the textile business. But while she was taking classes on international business and global supply chains, she was also hosting regular dinner parties for her...
Emile Milgrim Brings the Rock to Miami at Sweat Records, Miami Girls Rock Camp

By Brittany Shammas
Nov 15, 2016

Twelve years ago, Emile Milgrim was starting a graduate program in sociology and envisioning a career in academia. But it didn't feel right. So when the bass player from her old band suggested they start a record label, she was sold. "It was definitely a hard thing to break to...
Veronika and Valerie Pagan Design Miami Swimwear Wonders

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Nov 15, 2016

It's not always easy running a business with your twin sister. But Verónika and Valerie Pagán, the minds behind swimwear brand Verónika Pagán, have one simple rule for working together. "We were taught that we can be mad at each other for five minutes," Valerie explains. "After that, we deal...
Irma Martinez Is Stylist to the Stars

By Brittany Shammas
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As a salesperson at a Miami boutique, Irma Martinez used to dress the mannequins in the windows. Customers loved the way she put the outfits together — so much so they'd come in and buy all the pieces. Irma has always been a creative dresser, skipping the rules and mixing...
Aileen Quintana's Performance Art Brings Miami Neon to the Stage

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As she sits at a table inside a Wynwood coffee shop, Aileen Quintana projects an otherworldliness. Though she's dressed mostly in black, she seems to radiate the colors that characterize her vibrant art projects, such as her vaporwave mall installation, Sunset @ Noon, which recently showed at this year's III...

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