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Ten Things Everyone in Miami Has Gotten Angry About

Miami is a town of deep emotions, but perhaps none run stronger than anger. Oh, we can find almost anything to be angry about here. But here are ten things everyone in town is almost assuredly perpetually bothered by.  Traffic and Other Drivers Does this one need explanation? No. No it...
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Miami Marlins Ban Beards, Because That Will Probably Turn Things Around

The Miami Marlins, a professional baseballing team and a suspected longform improv troupe specializing in dark comedy, have tried everything in recent years to turn their fortunes around: a new stadium, three different managers, and occasional star signings followed by roster shaking trades. Nothing has worked.  Well, maybe just maybe newly...
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Miami Billionaire Mike Fernandez Wasted So Much Cash on Jeb Bush

America's saddest presidential campaign has finally been euthanized by the good voters of South Carolina. No more can voters chuckle woefully at pleas to "Please clap" or at ham handed attempts to explain why Dubya wasn't wrong to invade Iraq. Jeb! and his random exclamation point have walked slowly into...
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In Miami, Colombian Ex-President Álvaro Uribe Condemns Peace Process

The fiercest critic of the Colombian peace accords took his message to Miami on Friday, telling journalists the treaty as it’s currently being negotiated will result in criminals and terrorists going free. “Peace with impunity isn’t a sustainable peace,” said Senator Alvaro Uribe, the former president of Colombia, at an...
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Pat Riley Needs to Be Patient or Retire

"The most difficult thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much easier to be selfish." — Pat Riley Arguably the most memorable, and consistently-sports-relative part of Pat Riley's book The Winner Within is a portion where he speaks about an...
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Colleges Should Stop Punishing Students Who Drink

It was 1 a.m. Saturday, January 16, when a pair of uniformed men shook Jaiema Pierre awake. The petite 18-year-old nursing major had fallen asleep in a friend's dorm room at the Indian River Towers on Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus. "What year is it?" one of them asked...
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Tall Juan’s Classic Punk Sound Is a Throwback Worth Seeing Live

Listening to a Tall Juan track for the first time, you might mistake the energetic hooks and propulsive guitar for an acoustic Ramones B-side. Indeed, the Buenos Aires-born songwriter (born Juan Zaballa) takes cues from the monolithic presence that Joey Ramone and company had in the heyday of punk. "I...
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Miike Snow Makes the Most Out of Ultra’s Live Stage

Because Miami is a black hole of traffic nightmares (especially this weekend) and I’m so very Miami myself that tardiness is a way of life, I arrive late to my scheduled interview with Miike Snow at this year’s Ultra Music Festival. Luckily, the Swedish-American indie pop trio do some scheduling...
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Pro-Trump Super PAC’s Robocall: “Don’t Vote for a Cuban”

This is the most diverse group of legitimate presidential contenders America has ever seen. One the Democratic side you've got both the first woman and first Jew to ever win a primary. On the Republican side, those left standing include two Cuban-Americans and an African-American. Regardless of the rest of...
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Florida’s Doggie Death Row Law Faces Challenges

If your dog bites someone, even if it hasn't been previously declared a dangerous dog, and investigators declare the resulting wound "severe," your dog will be put to death. That's the law in Florida, but a case involving a black lab in Bradenton, Florida named Padi has caused so much outrage...
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Child-on-Child Sexual Abuse Devastates a South Florida Family

As John Wilson cooked dinner for his family in March 2010, an eerie silence filled their cozy Plantation home. Usually around 6 p.m. on a school day, the place was bustling. Four kids were asking about dinner or playing videogames. John, a mild-mannered musician with salt-and-pepper hair and rimless glasses,...
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Miami’s Venezuelans Party as Opposition Wins Congress

For the past 17 years, the Chavista wave started by Hugo Chavez and carried on by his successor Nicolas Maduro has held an iron grip on Venezuelan politics, from the national assembly to the presidential palace. While Maduro still holds onto his executive power, Chavismo  has taken a historic blow at...
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Not Sure Who to Vote for in Miami Beach? This App Will Tell You

The results of local elections have a huge impact on our lives. But across Miami, local election turnout has historically been meager. In the last Miami Beach mayoral race, in 2013, just 25 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot. In Miami, that number fell to 11 percent. And across...