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Miami Is the Capital of Deadly ATF Stings: 130 Charged, 7 Killed

Miami is chock full of more cocaine than a Mexican narco-piñata. And yet, the city's most dangerous drug may just be imaginary. According to an investigation by USA Today, Miami is the main staging ground for controversial ATF sting operations in which undercover agents trick suspects into plotting robberies of...
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Minor League Baseball: A Journey

If you've experienced a minor league baseball game in the past 20 years, it's hard to believe there was a time when it was viewed and treated as a virtual throwaway by its Major League parents. In the 1960s, minor league baseball was rotting and dying a slow death. With...
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Big Boi Injures Knee, Forced to Postpone Tour

Poor Big Boi. It seems the slickest, most Southernplayalistic half of Outkast still touring has injured himself while rockin' a stage. And now he has to sit out for at least six weeks. According to Billboard, the rapper was giving it his all at Summer Camp Fest in Chillicothe, Illinois,...
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Fill the Void, a Betrothal Drama, Illuminates Hasidic Life

Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that when pieced together, the sensuous images accumulating into a fuller picture, become a wedding dress, tulle and silk diffusing the glow. Engagements, weddings, births, and deaths: This film is a more traditional kind of...
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Ryan Braun Admits He Used PEDs During 2011 MVP Season

Last month, ex-University of Miami slugger Ryan Braun was the first player to accept a suspension for his ties to Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic exposed in a Miami New Times investigation as a source for performance enhancing drugs for pro athletes. But Braun didn't specify what he'd done...
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Think Globally, Dance Locally

Peter London — both the person and the troupe of performers named for him — exemplifies Miami’s dance scene today. London, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, danced with the Martha Graham and José Limón companies and now teaches at the New World School of the Arts. After he planted...
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Poll: More Democrats Prefer PBR; Americans Hate Hipsters

Looks like the quintessential hipster beer skews down party lines. According to a new study by Public Policy Polling, Dems are more likely to think PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon, for newbies) is a "good beer" than their Republican counterparts (probably 'cuz they're used to Dom Perignon and shit). The poll...
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The Prodigal Son Returns

You might have heard of Robert Mapplethorpe, the artist whose exhibit “The Perfect Moment” was the focus of the film Dirty Pictures and which led to Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center standing trial for obscenity after hosting the exhibition. But have you heard of Mike Diana? Only a few years after...
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The Cypress Room Keeps It Classy in the Design District

The tale of the frogs' legs begins as you'd expect, but then it takes an unexpected twist. There they were, leaping through a mosquito-infested bog in the Everglades, when suddenly they resurfaced in a very different environment. Chefs at the Cypress Room, a posh Design District restaurant filled with fine...
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Hugo Chavez’s Successor, Nicolas Maduro, Narrowly Elected President

In Doral and Weston, South Florida's Venezuelans loudly celebrated Hugo Chávez's death last month. But it appears his revolution didn't die with him. Chávez's handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro, has won the keys to the presidency. With 99 percent of the ballots counted last night, Maduro was beating opposition leader Henrique Capriles by a...
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Dade Medical College: Political Pull, Poor Student Outcomes

A pungent odor permeates an empty mosaic-tiled room inside a shuttered motel at 304 N. Krome Ave. in downtown Homestead. Mildew seeps through the walls. "Before I owned this place, it was a haven for crack addicts and prostitutes," says the 43-year-old owner, Ernesto Perez, who bought the place for...
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Shot Dead on a Stolen WaveRunner

"They are stealing my, my boat in the back," Yasmin Davis stuttered into the phone. Seconds earlier, the pretty Peruvian architect had been eating lunch in her $2 million Miami Shores mansion. As she tucked a slice of sushi into her mouth, she glanced out the huge glass windows and...
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Jungle Drug Ayahuasca Could Revolutionize Psychotherapy

Tracy James knew the drug she'd just swallowed was working when her old injuries from high school started twitching with new life. Pressure throbbed from a forgotten busted knee. Her ankle tingled. The fingers she'd sprained roller-skating decades back began to ache. Whatever the 37-year-old had just taken, it shot...
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Funny People

Unless it’s the weekend of the South Beach Comedy Festival, Miami is not exactly known as a comic’s paradise. And that’s sad, because there are some very funny people lurking in the Magic City. What they need is some recognition. And the Ultimate Miami series of events at Magic City...
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Game 6 Preview: The Big Three Era Comes Down To Tonight

The term "must-win" is rather carelessly thrown about in sports. Following the Heat's Game One loss to the Chicago Bulls in the East Semi-Finals, the term popped up because one could not fathom the Heat going down 0-2 to Chicago, much less losing both home games to start the series...