At a City of Miami Commission meeting last Thursday more than 50 men, women, and children crowded into the small gallery inside City Hall, an unusual, impossible-to-miss crowd for a run of the mill city meeting. The crowd wore fluorescent green shirts, for maximum impact, emblazoned with the message, "All...
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Last December 4, during Art Basel, a 21-year-old amateur graffiti artist named Delbert Rodriguez stopped in Wynwood with a friend to visit some bars and soak in the art-festival atmosphere. Later that night Rodriguez, who went by the street name "Demz," was tagging a wall on a dark corner of...
Centro Taco, Richard Hales' downtown Mexican restaurant located at 125 SE Third Ave.,begins Saturday brunch service this week. Served Saturdays from noon - 3 p.m., this weekend meal features mashups of traditional breakfast fare and Mexican favorites. The result is a selection of brunch items that are unique and affordable. ...
Just over a year ago, Miami Beach Police Chief Dan Oates banned his officers from all off-duty work at SoBe nightclubs after a string of embarrassments, including a sergeant who got wasted while working at Mango's Tropical Cafe. Today, Beach cops are not only back on the job — they're...
This headline feels like it could be the result of some sort of specially tuned fake headline generator designed to spit out fake news items guaranteed to infuriate people with even the slightest tinges of progressive leaning. Other possibilities could have been, "Westboro Baptist Church Paints Portrait of Man Dying of...
Last week, as I was canoeing my car through the flooded aftermath of a typical rainy South Beach afternoon a thought occurred to me. In 101 years, Miami Beach has gone from being an uninhabitable mojon con pelo to one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. The greater...
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Toronto rapper Drake has officially become an icon. The Hip-Hop Hall of Fame should just go ahead and induct him now. He has not only proven himself as a top lyricist, but he also knows how to manipulate the internet to his advantage. Drake was already riding high when his...
Florida's standings in national rankings of students scores on standardized math and science tests paint, at best, a mediocre picture. In 2013, the last time the Education Department released such rankings, Florida sat at 30th, a troubling ranking for the third largest state in the nation. It's also a ranking cited...
Donald Trump's popularity shows no signs of slipping in Florida. The latest Quinnipiac poll shows Trump atop all his GOP rival amongst Republican primary voters with 28 percent lining up behind the Donald. That's actually a rise of 7 percent since the last time Quinnipiac polled Florida in late August. ...
For the last month, Jonathan Harrington has been living every practical jokers' worst nightmare. The University of Miami student faced a felony drug charge and expulsion from school — all because, he insisted, he'd put out lines of powdered sugar as a joke before a dorm inspection. When a police...
In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously left the White House with a warning to the American public about the rise of the military-industrial complex. When Barack Obama exits the Oval Office next year, he wouldn’t be remiss in cautioning the nation about the conspiracy-industrial complex, which has dug its tentacles into...
After a controversial development proposal that would have transformed a historic beachfront stretch of North Beach was rejected by Miami Beach voters earlier this month, many residents were left wondering about the fate of their neighborhood. They got some clues Monday night, when esteemed urban planning firm Dover Kohl launched...
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The queasiest thing about American Crime Story’s (FX) retelling of the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial is how easily such a flagrant miscarriage of justice could happen all over again. The twin forces that most warped that case, after all, still plague us today: a tabloid culture that reduces flesh-and-blood...
Work doesn't matter today. Every second that passes is just one less moment standing between you and an actual, real-life NFL Sunday. It's been more than seven long, hard months since we last saw the Patriots and Seahawks play in Super Bowl XLIX; but we made it, and now it's...
Though Little Haiti and the MiMo District are two of Miami's fastest growing areas, the stretch of Biscayne Blvd. north of NE 79th Street to 125th Street has lagged behind in attracting independent shops and restaurants until now. That part of Biscayne that serves as a main thoroughfare for middle...
All of the staff at Uvaggio Wine Bar & Restaurant are trained sommeliers. But this isn't to say they're snobbish when it comes to vino —- quite the opposite in fact. To show they don't take themselves too seriously, the wine list is broken down by categories such as "you...
There’s a fierce battle being waged in Florida over access to one of our state’s greatest resources: the sun. With the effects of climate change ever more obvious, solar is a scorching hot policy topic, and we’re seeing a lot of activity around two competing solar ballot initiatives in Florida...
Back when the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) opened its doors during Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, nearly two years ago, they displayed an exhibit by the prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. A few months later in February, a local painter strolled into the museum and in an act of...
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There have been may a classic battle fought in Florida. Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali) vs Sonny Liston in 1964. The battles of the Miami Hurricanes and Florida State Seminoles in the early '90s. The Rock vs John Cena at WrestleMania XXVIII. But perhaps no face-off was quite as...
Not eating food for three days can be the worst. Except for when you rid your body of all the built up toxins and instead fill it with much needed nutrients from pure fruits and vegetables, resulting in some weight loss but also a I feel pretty good about myself...
When it comes to real estate in Miami right now there's really no such thing as a deal, but if you're a millennial looking to save some money, Trulia reports that it's much cheaper for you to buy a home or apartment than it is to rent. In theory anyway...
It is now safe to say another mediocre Dolphins football season has successfully completed the circle of life that is NFL in Miami; from consumption, to indigestion, to eventual painful, horrid, regret-filled evacuation of the system. There was nothing special about the Dolphins 24-14 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on...