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• Miami Beach Commissioners Ask Stores to Please Stop Selling Dead Sharks in Jars

  Friday, December 21, 2018 at 9 a.m.

  Hoping to pick up a tiny dead shark in a jar for someone special this Christmas? Or perhaps a baby alligator skull? You better not tarry! City commissioners in Miami Beach last week passed a resolution asking local merchants to stop selling these truly bizarre souvenirs ASAP. This was necessary...

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  Famed Miami Strip Club King of Diamonds Has Been Evicted

  Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 4:34 p.m.

  Miami's King of Diamonds is, quite possibly, the most famous strip club in America. It's a blue-neon-lit beacon on the side of I-95 where TV star Blac Chyna danced. KOD, as it's informally known, has been referenced in countless rap songs. It regularly showed up in hip-hop videos. But as of this month, the club is basically no more...

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  Miami-Dade Explores Privatizing New Jails

  Monday, October 8, 2018 at 8:30 a.m.

  Miami-Dade's jail system has been a mess for years. The downtown Pretrial Detention Center is now almost 60 years old. In recent years, the Department of Justice has blasted the county for operating leaky, roach-infested jails with overflowing urinals. And just last week, a correctional supervisor sued Miami-Dade for employment violations because the mold inside the detention center is so bad she can't breathe.

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  Someone Made a Wynwood-Themed Bar in Greece, and We Have Some Questions

  Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 1:35 p.m.

  Wynwood is Miami's least remarkable neighborhood. South Beach is one of the world's most iconic art deco cityscapes. Little Havana is a melting pot of Cuban and American traditions that exists nowhere else on Earth. Wynwood has street art, endless EDM, and $17 cocktails. You could pluck any Wynwood bar, pop it into Brooklyn or Seattle or Portland or Los Angeles or Austin, and nobody would notice a thing.

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  Miami Trashes Salt Bae's Online Reviews After He Serves Steak to Maduro

  Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 9:36 a.m.

  Nusret Gökçe, better known as Salt Bae, has built a global restaurant empire by turning himself into a sodium-tossing, skimpy-T-shirt-wearing Instagram meme. But the Miami outpost of his Nusr-Et steakhouse chain has been troubled from the start, bedeviled by lukewarm reviews and the Turkish chef's decision to engage in some Fidel Castro cosplay.

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  Miami-Dade's Fifth Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opening in Dadeland

  Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 3 p.m.

  Medical pot is on the rise in Florida. Since voters legalized medical marijuana and low-THC cannabis in the November 2016 general election, Florida has added 144,557 patients to the Office of Medical Marijuana Use's user registry, according to the Department of Health’s latest update. For a state with a population of 21 million, about one in 145 Floridians can legally use medical weed.