An English-speaking teacher says Miami-Dade County School Board discriminated against her by not hiring her for a job. The position? Teaching an hour of Spanish per day. Tracy Rosner, a third-grade teacher at Coral Reef Elementary, filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida last week claiming employment...
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Paulo Berejuk's deep voice cracks over the phone from southern Brazil. He now lives in Santa Catarina, which boasts hundreds of miles of white-sand beaches crowned with lushly jungled hillsides. But to Berejuk, it feels like a prison, worse than the federal pen in North Carolina where he finished an...
Set aside your visions of histrionic, paranoid fireworks. Oliver Stone’s whistleblower biopic Snowden finds the director in an unusually somber and controlled mood, perhaps because of the introverted, awkward nature of Edward Snowden himself. The former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor, who in 2013 exposed the U.S. government’s...
Last night the Associated Press announced that Hillary Clinton had secured the support of enough delegates (both super and otherwise) to clinch the Democratic nomination for president. Tonight, she's widely expected to shore up a majority of the popular vote and pledged delegates during the final round of primary contests...
The more David Yuzuk uncovered, the more he wondered whether the man who'd been overlooked for years could have secretly been working as a government contractor, a black-market gunrunner, or even a spy with the perfect cover story.
Three years ago, Christian Cooley moved to Miami to open his own recording studio in the heart of Wynwood. “Before Miami, I was thinking to move to L.A.,” he remembers. He booked a plane ticket, landed, and shortly after, had an epiphany. “I realized they don't need another producer.” Born...
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Hardcore was the first rave subgenre. An investigation of early ’90s rave culture would reveal its participants’ insistence on using the word “hardcore” to describe themselves and their music. “Strictly for the hardcore,” “Hardcore, you know the score!” and “Hardcore will never die!” screamed off vinyl records and glossy flyers sporting...
Regrettably, it’s still 2016, and on top of all the awful news this awful year has gifted us, music festivals are dying — at least according to some. Cynics point to the repetitive lineups and increasingly corporate vibe at major affairs like Bonnaroo and Ultra as evidence of their lost...
The grainy security video shows Steven Rodgers, a 43-year-old Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police officer, inside his Miami Edison Senior High School office. His silver badge glints against the dark blue of his uniform as he grins into the camera. And his penis is in his hand as he pleasures...
The blond corpse floats in a blood-filled bathtub. The face bobs just barely above the surface. She wears nothing but a thong. Her hands are tied with a ribbed fabric sash. The feet are bound with a beige electrical cord. Stab wounds dot her body. The sprawling Mediterranean-style home is a...
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Miami, we talked about this yesterday. Firing your gun in the air to celebrate Fourth of July is a very bad idea. Falling celebratory bullets have seriously injured multiple people in recent years, including two kids in separate instances. But you didn't listen. In fact, you even found a new...
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Three years ago, 18-year-old artist Israel Hernandez, also known as Reefa, was fatally tasered by police officers who found him creating a piece of illegal street art. The news split Miami in two. Some accused the cops of unwarranted brutality; others condemned Hernandez as a criminal. But filmmaker and producer...
Young-adult fiction thrives in the land of fantasy. Boy wizard Harry Potter still rules (as proven by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s 3.3 million-copy North American debut last week), and popular series such as Twilight and The Hunger Games have successfully built upon the foundation laid by classics like A...
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Florida's coral reefs are already in big trouble. Scientists around the globe have noted serious problems for the delicate but vital ecosystems, especially from "bleaching," a process that occurs when high heat and sunshine causes devastating effects. But that's not the only threat reefs in Florida face. A Florida Keys study...
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It's been almost five months since Uber launched UberPOOL in Miami, the carpool version of their original service that connects riders traveling along the same routes in an effort to save them money. As expected, the results have been interesting. After all, it's one thing to ride with a group...
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Most of us already post photos of foods we like on social media, so why not take it one step further for a good cause and post a selfie with a fruit or vegetable. Just be sure to use the hashtag #DrinkGoodDoGood because every time you do, Naked Juice will...
Informed that the CDC has recommended that pregnant women avoid the Wynwood neighborhood where her new movie, Evolution, is to have its Florida premiere, writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic can’t help but burst into laughter. “Is this on purpose?” she asks during an interview from France. She wonders if the twisted minds...
Jeb Bush built up a pretty nice life for himself after he left Florida's Governors mansion. He snagged some cushy corporate gigs to bring home the bacon, and continued his public policy work through his involvement with various foundation. Most notably, he set up his own Foundation for Excellence in Education...
Despite an acknowledged longshot chance at the nomination, Bernie Sanders and his campaign has trudged on. One of their main reasons, as we're sure a friend or two of yours has explained in an impassioned Facebook status update, is that at that moment Sanders fairs better than Hillary Clinton in national...