Nothing is scarier than a city commission that's all smiles. Politicians are preternaturally disposed to disagreement, so voters should be skeptical whenever commissioners suddenly go full kumbaya. On the scale of suspicious love-fests, this past April 10 was a doozy. City of Miami commissioners lined up to laud a so-called...
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To call The Dance of Reality, the new film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a personal film, would be an understatement. Writing in his native Spanish, from his home in Paris, the legendary director says, "The purpose of all true art is to reveal to man the beauty of your own soul."...
"People should either be caressed or crushed," Niccolò Machiavelli once wrote. "If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do." Seth Cohen clearly did not get the civics lesson. In summer 2012, the then-43-year-old New Yorker went...
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This weekend marks the unofficial start of grill season. But vegans are well aware that a summer barbecue invite carries an unspoken demand: Bring your own food, you meatless weirdo. 'Cuz let's be real -- most folks aren't using their prized Webers for eggplant and portobello, now are they? The...
Three months after being forced out of the Bird Road spot where 1909 Caf� stood for nearly two decades, owner Emilio Castro Shippers says sales are about 85 to 90 percent of where they should be. "Fifty percent of our walk-ins have come back," he says. "A lot of people...
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There's no doubt that Major League Baseball's Department of Investigations accomplished exactly what Commissioner Bud Selig sent it to South Florida to do. After Miami New Times revealed that a local clinic called Biogenesis was selling performance-enhancing drugs to a host of baseball stars, the investigators were tasked with collecting...
When news broke last week that Senior Writer Michael E. Miller had won the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi award for nondeadline writing, it was just the cherry on top of an unparalleled year of national prize-winning for Miami New Times. Miller's award comes for his feature story "Champ," which tells...
Miami's Torche remains one of the most unique heavy bands ever, melding catchy, melodic vocals with a bludgeoning, slack-stringed guitar assault and drumming that has more in common with the sounds of a mortar assault than rock music. The resulting sounds are as potent as they are unique, which may...
Burger month is almost over, which means you need to consume as many burgers as possible by the week's end. If that sounds difficult to do, don't fret -- Michael Mina 74 is setting out to make the task feasible. Not only did the restaurant roll out four burgers (one...
After a hard day of work, it can be difficult to motivate oneself to get to the gym. This weekend, your plans to lounge on the beach or binge-watch Game of Thrones may take priority over a muddy obstacle course - but what if that obstacle course were made of...
"That's so Miami." It's a phrase you hear everywhere in this town, from exasperated locals and bemused tourists alike. Wearing your bathing suit to Publix? That's so Miami. A $22 cocktail? That's so Miami. Last year the O, Miami Poetry Festival devoted a monthlong competition to verse describing the unique...
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Ever wonder what paths are the most popular for jogging in Miami? At Flowing Data, statistician-pulled data from run tracking app RunKeeper was used to map out the most highly jogged roads in the City of Miami (and a handful of other cities, too). Here are the results...
The laws of supply and demand apply equally to real estate and reality television. In a marketplace saturated with options -- Kardashians, Real Housewives of Anyplace, etc. -- the value of each individual property is diminished. So how can Million Dollar Listing Miami, Bravo's spin-off of its similar series in...
It's been more than a decade since 8-year-old Marlene Rojas Ramos died inside her own home on the shores of Lake Titicaca. She was felled by a sharpshooter's single bullet fired through her family's front window. Ramos was one of the youngest of the 58 Bolivians killed in a bloody...
Will Florida's 2014 governor's race become the election that was over before it even began? Ever since Governor Rick Scott's approval ratings plummeted shortly into his tenure, rumors have floated that Charlie Crist would officially become a Democrat and trounce Scott in an election ... and that seems to be...
If you've ever wondered how a recipe is created, here's a chance to get inside the head of one of Miami's sweetest chefs. Michael's Genuine Food & Drink's executive pastry chef, Hedy Goldsmith, has created a Stormy Seven Fathoms cupcake with coconut lime frosting. The cupcake is an Island holiday...
When Phil Lord and Chris Miller pitched their idea for a 21 Jump Street movie, a film everyone thought was, at best, a moronic moneymaker, they had one bold proposal: "What if the twist is that we try to make it really good?" says Lord. "That's basically a summary of...
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Brewery Ommegang is busting out with its third annual HopChef Competition at the BIltmore Hotel on April 28, pitting several Miami chefs against each other to see who can make the best beer and food pairing. Eight prominent Miami chefs are currently in the process of developing their dishes for...
"People should either be caressed or crushed," Niccolò Machiavelli once wrote. "If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do." Seth Cohen clearly did not get the civics lesson. In summer 2012, the then 43-year-old New Yorker...
Miami-Dade County is the NBA for corrupt politicians: With a deep talent pool, incredibly rich history, and always blossoming crop of new stars, it's the top of the game for shady politicos. And David Rivera is the Derrick Rose of the league, a multitalented scandal machine who's been sidelined the...
The man eating breakfast certainly looked like Nicholas Cutter. He had the same pale skin. The same shaved head. The same technicolor tattoos peeking from beneath his T-shirt like graffiti on a whitewashed wall. Yet, from across the kitchen table, his sister Rainy saw a stranger. Once an extroverted older...