Absentee ballots have been sent out for this year's primary, which means it's officially election season in Miami-Dade. Of course, every election season here ends up with someone getting busted for voter fraud. Well, the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association is at least hoping to make someone a little richer off...
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Ultra Music Festival is finally legal, in the sense that adult party people will no longer need to rage alongside wide-eyed 12-year-olds and be astonished when they say it's their "third year." For the 2015 edition of the EDM fest, each and every raver will need to be at least...
"There's no avoiding trouble in this world if you want to make something," Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch says about making his first feature film. "But it's worth it." And God Help the Girl, the delightful musical he wrote and directed, certainly took a lot of work to become...
Darkness. Vision is consumed by darkness and the sound of knobs turning and metal clashing. Light flickers in, and things start to come into perspective. It's a lift; something is being carried up — but to where? The screeching of a pulley is joined by the panting of a young...
When thinking of Verde, Stephen Starr's restaurant at P�rez Art Museum Miami, craft beer doesn't necessarily spring to mind. Yet this Thursday, chef Nicolay Adinaguev will be collaborating with brewmaster Wayne Wambles of Tampa's Cigar City to create a beer-pairing dinner that will be sure to please all beer snobs...
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The Dolphins just can't catch a break. Defensive end Dion Jordan, the Fins' first round pick in 2013, has been suspended for the first four games of next season without pay after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs...
There's big money being made in the marijuana legalization movement. But none if it is going to benefit African-Americans, the people who have suffered the most because of marijuana prohibition. Even the New York Times, in an op-ed column calling for an end to America's pot ban, admitted that marijuana...
A month ago, state regulators raised the alarm over silt from the Deep Dredge killing Miami corals. Now the feds are stepping in as well. According to documents obtained by New Times, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a scathing set of recommendations for saving endangered coral threatened...
Conventional forms of meat consumption are so passe in our post-Andrew Zimmern world. Ever since Bizarre Foods hit the airwaves, budding foodies have been trying to outdo one another in the consumption of exotic and stomach-churning meals. Along with insect larvae and durian, offal (a euphemism for organs, glands, and...
Darkness. Vision is consumed by darkness and the sound of knobs turning and metal clashing. Light flickers in, and things start to come into perspective. It's a lift; something is being carried up -- but to where? The screeching of a pulley is joined by the panting of a young...
After some early hope this season, the Marlins will play their 100th game tonight and are marred in mediocrity. It's actually an improvement over the past two seasons, but the team is still 6.5 games behind in the wildcard race. Rather than trying to beef up by making trades, the...
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Climate change -- the accompanying rising sea levels -- is one of the biggest issues facing Florida's future. Yet, Governor Rick Scott has done very little to address it. Well, he's finally decided to at least listen. His office announced today that he'll meet with climate change scientists later this...
The living room of MaryAnn Macias' Miami Beach condo is sparsely furnished, with few decorations other than photos of herself with her swarthy, barrel-chested husband, Jaime. There's one snapped soon after they moved in together. Another was taken at their wedding. A third shows them seated together in Jaime's aunt's...
It's only a few days until a taste of the annual Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) invades the newly renovated Tower Theater in Little Havana. The name of the minifest — MIFFecito — is a play on the cafecitos so prevalent in the neighborhood. MIFF executive director Jaie Laplante says...
Ground Up and Rising, the minimalist Miami theater company, is still at war. Two months after its production of Bill Cain's 9 Circles dramatized the hellish fallout of an American soldier's unspeakable war crimes in Iraq, the company remains ensconced in the psychological shrapnel of combat. This weekend, Ground Up...
One year ago today, Miami Beach cops caught a tall, skinny teenager spray-painting the side of an abandoned McDonald's. A phalanx of police officers chased the curly-haired kid for seven minutes: Israel "Reefa" Hernandez clambered over fences and atop cars until he finally found himself cornered in front of a...
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The documentary Advanced Style isn't at all subtle about its premise from the very moment it begins, but that's not a bad thing. Ari Seth Cohen, the man behind the blog that presents the world with stylish and creative older folks, introduces himself to people on the streets and compliments...
The Miami Hurricanes dropped their third game of the season against Georgia Tech this past Saturday, all but assuring that the 2014-15 campaign will be just another dead-end. The frustrating loss to the Yellow Jackets has even caused some of Al Golden's most loyal supporters to reconsider their allegiances. If...
Bernie Weiss could be your grandpa. Nestled on the 12th floor of a custard-colored Collins Avenue retirement home, his small studio apartment bears all the signs of senescence. The air inside is as cool and moist as a supermarket veggie aisle. The coffee table is spread with gummies and Publix...
Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi has been acquitted by a federal jury on charges that he took a nearly $7,000 kickback for supporting a grant for his city. See also: Feds case against Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi is Weak, Transcripts Suggest...