When it comes to reporting on crime and other bad things happening in Miami, local TV stations do not provide fair and balanced coverage. In fact, mainstream news organizations are out to destroy African-American communities. Consider this: Last week, 26-year-old Lazaro Manuel Arencibia was shot in the abdomen at a...
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Art is rarely made with the intention of throwing it away. But that’s the mission of Trash Detectives, a project co-presented by the Frost Science Museum and Miami Science Barge that will launch during DWNTWN Art Days this Saturday and Sunday. DWNTWN Art Days, a three-day-long civic project aimed at...
The Clash released its EP The Cost of Living on election day in 1979, when the musically maligned conservative leader Margaret Thatcher assumed power of the United Kingdom. The EP's first track, "I Fought the Law," a song no doubt familiar to you now thanks to its bastardization in Pepsi...
This summer, after a heated discussion about crime, shady business practices, and general seediness on Ocean Drive, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine asked Commissioner Ricky Arriola to meet with business owners and residents and come back with a plan of attack. Today, at its first meeting since the summer break,...
Coming out wasn't easy for Tarell Alvin McCraney. The playwright, born and raised in Liberty City, has earned a MacArthur Fellowship with plays about Hurricane Katrina, the projects of Louisiana, and adaptations of Hamlet. But he'd never found a way to tell his own tale of coming to terms with...
The forces behind the creation of the Arts + Entertainment District have made a strong and focused effort to jazz up the area just northeast of Overtown via an array of arts events that truly entertain. The concert series Rooftop Unplugged, for example, draws the city's well-dressed, young-adult contingent...
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Miami police can't stop people from firing celebratory gunshots on holidays like New Year's Eve and July 4. This past Independence Day, someone made the moronic decision to fire his or her gun in the middle of the tourist-heavy Bayside Marketplace downtown. Apparently, current Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall (not the...
Earlier this month, ESPN released its 2016 NFL QB Tier Rankings, the sports network's third-annual rankings of quarterbacks based on ratings compiled from 42 league insiders. Ryan Tannehill did not fare well. Of the 33 quarterbacks on the list, Tannehill placed 24th, firmly in the third tier, making him a "legit starter who...
Thursday Have you ever wanted to know more about the work of German pop artist Thomas Bayrle? If so, you're in luck! Critic Kirsty Bell is presenting a talk with an impressively long title: "The Massive Scale of Sameness Makes Everything Completely Different." Bell knows a thing or two about...
In Miami's tourism-centered economy, any crisis that might lead to visitors intentionally avoiding the metro area could quickly snowball into a full-scale economic catastrophe. Thankfully — so far at least — the zika virus outbreak doesn't seem to be having that effect. A study released yesterday by the University of Florida...
America lost a hero Thursday. John Herschel Glenn Jr. is dead. He was 95. Doctors said he had been ill for some time. Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth, and he later became the oldest human to fly in space. He resonated with Americana — God, family, country...
Miami Beach has based its economy on the fact that strangers love to visit and get drunk there. But it wants residents to know that offering those strangers a place to stay through websites like AirBnB is not an option. In the majority of residential Miami Beach, it's illegal to...
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Today, a pop-up preview of Brickell Backyard will be revealed to kick off the first stage of development in Miami’s anticipated project, The Underline. The unveiling of the temporary outdoor gym and fitness area marks the first opening of the 10-mile linear park spanning the land below Miami’s Metrorail, akin...
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Miami, is like the Azealia Banks of Congress. She always seems to find herself feuding with some celebrity or another. Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez have all found themselves on the other end of a critical Twitter lashing from Ros-Lehtinen. Though the congresswoman...
Doral has two breweries, but now add one more to that list. Tripping Animals Brewery's Daniel Chocron confirmed to the New Times that he and his partners signed a lease for a 15,000 square foot brew house at 2685 NW 105 Ave. But it's not opening anytime soon. The brewery...
Pokemon Go has taken over Miami: monsters with names like Charmander, Rattata, and Weedle are all over the city, turning parks and streets into a massive hunt for these virual critters. Of course, in order to capture these creatures, you're going to need the help of PokeStops. And what...
Miami's own homegrown empanaderia recently opened its seventh location, marking eight years serving locals and tourists across South Florida. Situated near the center of MiMo's business district (860 NE 79th St., Miami), Half Moon Empanadas' newest spot brings an extended menu, including a bevy of new flavors and a build-your-own...
In the week following the death of El Comandante, across this tiny island nation, Cubans repeated this paradox: Fidel was everything; his death means nothing. The sentiment was echoed in dozens of interviews — in cities and small towns, by the farmers who stood along the highway running through seemingly endless fields of sugarcane. That Cubans see Castro as “a father,” “an idol,” and their “soul” speaks to a precarious cult of personality that amassed around the revolutionary leader over his 47 years in power.
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When the Miami Herald recently asked for public records from Miami Beach about the city's water quality, City Hall responded with a whopping $72,793.53 bill for the documents. That lead to loud protests from First Amendment groups, with one leader calling the bill "crazy" and filmmaker Billy Corben penning a memorable demand letter...
Ayinde Crespo says that in 2012, he had a hell of a time convincing anyone that a Miami cop named Marcel Jackson had attacked him outside a strip club. The way Crespo tells it, Jackson tackled him from behind, slammed his face into the ground, and beat him. Even after...
The call came in to Miami Beach police early on a Monday morning two years ago: An MBPD sergeant, the witness said, had gotten hammered while working off-duty at Mango's Tropical Cafe on Ocean Drive. Police arrived to find Sgt. Mike Muley in such bad shape he had to be...
If you're living in Miami Beach right now, you're probably wondering whether to freak out about Zika. That's certainly understandable, and if an emergency Zika meeting yesterday proved anything, it's that even the public officials we look to for guidance don't have all the answers. Meant to be informational, Wednesday's...