While most prominent Miamians have been celebrating the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the map, the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami has come out hard against the decision. In a statement, Archbishop compared the ruling to Roe vs Wade (which legalized abortion across the country) and the Dred...
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If you were to hear there's a new street-crime revenge thriller that pairs a grown-up recent Oscar nominee/beloved TV star with Jennifer Lopez, you would probably respond, "This must be January" and "Even if it's terrible, that movie will make serious money." But the lead this time is not Liam...
Something strange is happening on Google Maps. People first took notice early this week when it was reported that typing in the phrase "n**** house" brings up The White House, but apparently the problem isn't confined to just that highly offensive example. Apparently if you type in "dumb fucks" while...
Jon Ranellone was cycling home in South Beach around 1 am last Friday when a car slammed into him. The accident, in front of the Panera at 14th Street, threw him from his bike onto the asphalt. But that wasn't the worst part of the ordeal, the video editor says...
The New York Times, the paper of record with a combined 114 Pulitzer Prizes, has really outdone itself with its latest shocker. It's the kind of in depth investigation that could change the course of American politics for ever. They've found that Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette have —gasp—...
Another Tales of the Cocktail is over, and Miami bartenders and spirits professionals are back in town after spending nearly a week in the Big Easy drinking, eating, learning, and networking. This year's Tales of the Cocktail had a large Miami contingent, with dozens of South Florida's finest taking part...
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At 7:30 in the evening, Terri Frana noticed two black bears gallop through the backyard of her 10-year-old, $725,000 house in Lake Mary, just north of Orlando. Frana, a 44-year-old banker with brown bangs and a kind face, was used to seeing the beasts around her woodsy neighborhood, but she...
Miami-Adde Commissioner Daniel Levine Cava called for a county-wide on Donald Trump earlier this week. Well, at least a ban of the county holding any official events at any Donald Trump-owned properties in the county. At their Wednesday meeting, commissioners didn't quite go that far, but they did pass an...
With the Kremlin and White House not exactly seeing eye to eye these days, it almost feels like we're on the verge of a second Cold War — if we aren't in one already. (In case you were wondering, the next great war will probably be fought in space with...
A passerby spotted the body just after dawn March 29. It didn’t take long for Miami Police detectives to identify the man lying in a pool of blood near Biscayne Boulevard and NE 80th Street. But that only deepened the mystery. Shaun Cole, they soon learned, was a 22-year-old Scottish...
Artist Tania Bruguera was detained yet again at her home in Havana. The Cuban-born artist has just finished a 100-hour long public reading of the German philosopher Hannah Arendt seminal work, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). In the book, Arendt argues that totalitarianism's sole purpose is to terrorize and repress an entire...
Free concerts are a rare thing. Any time we hear about one, we think: Sure, but what's the catch? We want to see free live music just as much as the next guy, but we don't want to have to give away our social security number in the process. Well suspicious...
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Two months ago, grocery delivery service Instacart launched in the southern part of Miami-Dade with a limited delivery area that includes Downtown, Coral Gables, West Miami, and Miami Beach. The service, which provides on-demand delivery of items from a selection of retailers for a nominal fee, originally launched in San...
When Nina Compton competed on Top Chef's season in New Orleans, Miamians cheered on our home town girl. The then Scarpetta chef de cuisine fell just short of first place, but still snagged the coveted fan favorite award. Three months after the series finale aired, Compton announced she was leaving her...
Enterprise Florida is a public-private partnership meant to attract business to Florida. Think of it this way, if Visit Florida, the state's tourism board, is meant to lure people to Florida for vacation, Enterprise Florida is supposed to lure businesses here to set up shop permanently. Governor Rick Scott, ever...
The projected path of Tropical Storm Erika has veered slightly north since yesterday, putting Miami out of the middle of various computer forcecasting models, but the city is still abuzz about the possibility of its first Hurricane strike in years (and knowing how quickly those forecast models can change, its...
Last night as part of the Cooking Tour Experience 2015, hosted by more than 40 members of the team from El Celler de Can Roca, the Girona, Spain restaurant which currently sits atop the list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, 100 lucky diners were invited aboard the SeaFair yacht...
Thanks to Bob Dylan, plenty of rock and roll fans are familiar with the name Hollis Brown. His 1964 hit, “Ballad of Hollis Brown,” is the dark tale of a South Dakota farmer who escapes poverty by killing his family and then himself. These days however, Hollis Brown is a...
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In many respects, Jeanine Capó Crucet's debut novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, is a classic coming of age tale. Lizet Ramirez is the daughter of Cuban immigrants, born and raised in Miami, she leaves the proverbial nest to attend Rawlings College, an elite East Coast University. While at Rawlings, Lizet must learn...
Belkis López Correa is poised on her skateboard, ready to give herself over to one of the most epic hills in all of Havana. The 16-year-old stands under a fierce midday sun with a forward gaze, steady and cool. Her knees are slightly bent, pink Vans sneakers stacked atop a...
It seemed inevitable Tom Colicchio would open a place in Miami. He's been eyeing the city since 2007, when David Bouley's Evolution vacated the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. But there was little hint the smooth-domed chef whose face is a fixture everywhere from television to Capitol Hill would take on a...
Anecdote #1: Chris Farley made a habit of pouncing on Mike Myers — at the same exact time each week — during the early- to mid-1990s era in which the two starred on Saturday Night Live. The elfin Myers deliberately took showers at a fixed, quiet time, but each week,...