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Anthony Alfieri: Clean-Up Man

In this week's Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. After 45 years of poisoning the mostly black residents of West Coconut Grove, the incinerator Old Smokey...
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New Rep. Carlos Curbelo Is Already In Trouble Over His Campaign Finances

As Joe Garcia desperately fought to hang onto his Congressional office this fall, we described it as the battle for "Florida's dirtiest district." After all, Garcia's predecessor, David Rivera, has faced down repeated investigations from the feds and watched former colleague Ana Alliegro head to prison over an election scheme...
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Freddo Opens Today: Try the Helado Panini

Freddo, the Argentinean helado company that's been churning out crafted frozen delights since 1969 has finally arrived in Miami. The South American ice cream company, with locations in six South American countries and the United Kingdom, has opened its second location in the United States today -- right on Lincoln...
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Taco Madness: Taquiza, Coyo, and Bodega Step Up

The taco-making begins with a whir and a screech. Late one weekday morning, Steve Santana, the bespectacled chef of Miami Beach's Taquiza, uses a power tool to deepen the narrow channels in two thick rock discs, which wear down every week while crushing corn into masa, the dough that becomes...
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A Solitary Eye

A solitary man praying in the vast expanse of the Sahara desert outside Algeria. Africa's Dinka people herding longhorn cattle in a dusty region of the Sudan. A Nenet nomad caught in a blustery windstorm in Siberia. A soaring iceberg in Antarctica sculpted into a fairy-tale castle by the inexorable...
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As Street Art Conquers Basel, AholSniffsGlue Is Everywhere

Ask AholSniffsGlue what he has planned for this year's Art Basel, and Miami's favorite gold-grilled, eyeball-painting street-art genius admits the truth: He can't fully wrap his head around all the murals, gallery and museum shows, parties, and film projects he has lined up. "I don't even know where to start,"...
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North Miami’s Memo Apparel Turns Selfies Into Socks

Lumped together in a cluttered corner of what used to be the spare bedroom of an apartment rests a stack of papers decorated with graphics. "There are just orders we're completing - everything is made to order," says Amor Galeano, shuffling the designs with one hand like a black jack...
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FIU Professor Says His Discovery Will Change the Diamond Trade

In the summer of 2013, Dr. Stephen Haggerty stood in the humid Liberian jungle, frustrated at the lack of progress. The swampy ground didn't allow for heavy machinery, so diamond exploration in these parts was done the old-fashioned way. Seventy-five years old at the time, the geologist helplessly watched his...
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Key Largo Teenager Dies After New Year’s Day Tasering

Last week we published an investigation into Taser misuse by Miami police officers. The article unearthed dozens of instances of questionable Taser use, including 11 recent cases in which subjects died after being tasered. Sadly, there is now another name to add to that list. Key Largo teenager Roberto Ornelas...
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Miami Beach Tops Nation in LGBT Equality Report, Hialeah Not So Much

It was a historic day for equal rights in Miami-Dade yesterday, as the county commission moved one step closer to adding transgendered residents to anti-discrimination laws. But it's the city across Biscayne Bay from County Hall that took home the area's highest honors for LGBT equality in the latest national...