As the City of Miami Beach continues to roll out an unprecedented array of sea-level rise solutions, a top Miami engineer is worried that city officials have overlooked one key factor: Back-up generators. In the case of a major storm or hurricane, the electricity that powers the city’s expansive pump...
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Miami’s Karen Peterson and Dancers company brings its 26th season to a close this weekend with a series of premieres as well as collaborations with two of Portugal’s leading dance companies, Amalgama Companhia de Danca and Plural. These groups, like Peterson’s, are committed to exploring what physicality and mixed-ability are...
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. It’s three days of a festive cacophony of music, art, and frosty libations. This Saturday, Wynwood's monthly art walk is back, bringing together galleries, food trucks, and live entertainment through...
While most Miami commuters wrestle with traffic to claim a space on the road, local musician Juraj Kojs steps onto Metrorail, which runs a skeletal route along one of the county's primary transportation corridors. Like his fellow passengers, the 40-year-old Kojs uses the train to get from place to place...
For any diner with a dietary restriction, eating out can be difficult. How do you know where to go, what to order — whether the server will be awesome about accommodating you, or an asshole? Tasteful is a new app geared towards vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free and other healthy or restricted eaters...
Miami Heat fans are finally coming to grips with the idea of Dwyane Wade in a Chicago Bulls jersey. So fans can now turn their attention to the status of the final remaining member of the Big 3: Chris Bosh. But it's starting to seem like the more we learn...
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If you need a dose of rage to get your blood pumping on a Monday morning, take a few minutes to read the Yelp reviews of Tremont Towing. Amid the usual complaints of illegal tows and surly drivers, you'll notice another common complaint: Drivers must pay nearly $300 to get...
Back in the day, you used to see strippers run out of the club to grab a rack of ribs," Waymond Thomas says. He's standing outside Bar-B-Que Ribs Chicken & Jerk Shack (12001 NW 27th Ave., Miami; 305-681-3536), cater-cornered to Miami Dade College's north campus. The air is thick with...
A John Lennon “Imagine” license plate greets you in the driveway of Joe Johnson’s home studio in Plantation. The common areas in the house are lightly sprinkled with Beatles memorabilia. A poster for the Beatles’ Vegas Cirque du Soleil show, Love, and an official print of Lennon’s “Dear Prudence” lyrics adorn...
In 2008, Patrick Glemaud, the director and curator of Macaya Gallery, attended a climate change conference in Uganda. There, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame spoke of the catastrophic war between the Tutsi and the Hutu. Their war erupted over a politician who incited violence over the radio — not dissimilar...
The stadium christened as "Joe Robbie" 29-years ago now officially has its seventh name. After the "Sun Life" naming rights expired last month, Stephen Ross and the Miami Dolphins decided not to return to the most recent generic name, Dolphin Stadium, and have instead picked a new name. Emphasis on the...
Flash back to early March in the chaotic Republican primary. Miami's GOP golden boy Marco Rubio was still clinging onto faint hope that he could bring mainstream Republicans together against insurgent Donald Trump. But then the latest polls started coming out of Florida, and it clear that Rubio was bound...
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Here's about as convincing an argument as I can imagine for the existence of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Disney and Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book reinvigorates an oft-told tale with star power, technology and calculated charm. It's been billed as a live-action remake (it's too good to be called a...
Top Chef season 13 champion Jeremy Ford is now also the executive chef at Market at Edition. The 30-year-old toque has been the executive chef at Matador Room inside the Miami Beach Edition hotel since the restaurant opened over a year ago, and now he's been tasked with overseeing the kitchen...
It's a little after 10 p.m. on a below-freezing February night in tiny Florence, South Carolina, a town of 38,000 not far from the coast. Just across from the municipal airport — which offers a grand total of three commercial flights per day — Club Compound is overflowing with sweaty...
There are few people in Miami who know more about trees than Bob Brennan. In 1969, the Coconut Grove native founded Brennan’s Tree Service, a tree care and landscaping company to inspect, feed and prune trees. Now an arborist at Fairchild Tropic Garden, Brennan is one of Miami’s foremost experts...
“I’m HIV positive,” is a phrase that, for a very long time, people feared without much understanding. Over the years, humanity has finally figured out that HIV is treatable and its transmission preventable. The recent Paris 05:59 (Theo et Hugo dans le meme bateau) depicts the virus in a less glaringly...
The second season of Amazon's Catastrophe might do for the #TGIF-style family sitcom of the late ‘80s and ‘90s what the first did for the ailing rom-com: open-mouthed resuscitation on the operating table after one too many Garry Marshall–fueled heart attacks like Valentine's Day. (Or New Year's Eve? It doesn't...
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Ben Carson on being black, Marco Rubio vs. Donald Trump as a video game, and Chris Christie as an outer space creature. It's been one helluva week. On this Super Tuesday, when the Donald is preparing to wrap it all up and move to the White House, Pepe Billete spouts...
When people win a contest, they're usually gifted with a vacation getaway or even a new car. It's very rare that being lucky results in the opportunity to live out your career dreams. That's exactly what happened to Andy Bates and wife Frenchy MIngo, who won a a year's free...
Matisyahu was as singular an artist as there's ever been: a Hasidic Jew, long beard and forelocks included, unearthing the Judaic underpinnings of Rastafarian reggae and reconnecting them to his faith. But when Matisyahu the man (born Matthew Miller — he adopted the Hebrew moniker in 2001) broke away from...
There's no doubt about it. Kyu (pronounced like the letter q) is the hottest restaurant in Miami right now. This can be interpreted both literally and figuratively, because a sizable portion of the restaurant's menu is prepared on its wood-fired grill using a combination of Asian and American barbecue techniques...