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Mark Richt’s Decision-Making Is Killing the Hurricanes’ National Title Dreams

Miami Hurricanes fans and sports pundits are still walking around in a daze following the team's embarrassing loss to the Louisiana State Tigers over Labor Day weekend. They bought into the hype that Miami deserved a Top 10 ranking while ignoring the brutal reality: The same problems the Canes had during the three-game losing streak to end last season were exposed again by LSU.
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Breweries Respond to Florida Law Banning Dogs in Taprooms and Breweries

On August 18, Jacksonville Beach's Southern Swells Brewing posted on Facebook a warning it received from the Florida Department of Health: No dogs in the building, or face possible closure. The notice came as a surprise and was met with outrage by brewery patrons, many of whom have grown accustomed to the sight of pet canines chilling in the taproom on any given day...
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More Than 100 Female Candidates Won in Florida’s Primaries

This year, record numbers of women across Florida are mounting campaigns for office, most of them progressives motivated by anti-Trump fervor and emboldened by the Women's March. The so-called Pink Wave had its first real test Tuesday, Primary Day. And the early returns suggest the wave is real.
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Miami Foreclosures Up 29 Percent From July 2017 to 2018, Report Says

By nearly every metric, Miami's housing and rental markets are Kafkaesque nightmares. Few people can afford their homes here because they are expensive, while median incomes are embarrassingly low. It's a dangerous predicament — one natural disaster could throw tons of cash-strapped homeowners spiraling into bankruptcy.
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The Weepies Bring Happy Music to the Broward Center

The opening verse of “World Spins Madly On,” the breakout single by the indie-folk duo the Weepies, describes an ex-lover suffering from a broken heart. At just under three minutes, this lovely acoustic lament by the husband-and-wife songwriting team of Steve Tannen and Deb Talan is an excellent introduction...
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Best Art Museum

The BassThe Bass is back, and it’s bigger than ever. When the ocean-facing museum finally reopened last October after a lengthy renovation, critics were ready to pounce. Construction delays had moved its reopening date back a full year. Would the results be worth the wait? Totally. One of the Bass’ opening exhibitions, “Good Evening Beautiful Blue” […]
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Best Strip Club

Scarlett's CabaretThis is South Florida and there are many places to see boobs. The occasional European on the beach? Sure! The periodic drunk lady at the grocery store who wants to show you her, uh, melons? It happens! But there is one place where the experience is almost transcendent: Scarlett’s Cabaret. This is a true gentlemen’s […]
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Climate Resiliency Can Save South Florida’s Future, but Only if Communities Take Action

Few issues facing the Florida peninsula are more pressing than climate change. Sea-level rise, saltwater intrusion, and rising temperatures all pose serious threats to the Sunshine State, and all of them are directly linked to our shifting climate. In 2015, during a speech given on Earth Day in the Everglades, President Barack Obama praised Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe Counties for uniting to take on climate change.
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Twitter Really Enjoyed Watching the Canes Get Destroyed by LSU

Penalties, turnovers, botched punts, and an inability to make any sort of big plays: These are just a few of the reasons the Miami Hurricanes were absolutely pantsed by the LSU Tigers for three quarters last night, only to make the score look respectable with a frantic fourth-quarter comeback that...
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Best Place to Kayak

Alfresco FunAs climate change and resulting flooding reshape Miami’s landscape, the city is becoming increasingly reminiscent of Venice. As the sea rises, you’ll want to enjoy it as you would the Italian city: in a boat. Rent a kayak, canoe, or paddleboard at Alfresco Fun and head on a five-mile loop. Enter the Oleta River, paddle […]
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Miami Prosecutors Quietly Drop “Solved” 1986 Cold-Case Murder Charges

In 2014, Miami-Dade County prosecutors said Rickey L. Davis was a killer. State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's office, working with Miami-Dade Police, announced it had determined Davis had strangled then-26-year-old Joycelean Burrows to death in Liberty City in 1986. Reporters blasted Davis' mugshot all over the press and claimed new DNA evidence had solved the case after nearly 30 years.
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Vegas Is Wrong: Adam Gase Won’t Be Fired This Season

We're beginning to think Las Vegas just isn't a fan of the 2018 Miami Dolphins. First, they peg the Fins with one of the lowest over-under numbers in the NFL; now they've taken it a step further and placed Adam Gase as the second-to-likeliest coach in the NFL to be fired this season — not cool, Vegas!
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Best Charity

Guitars Over GunsThis year’s horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas shifted all of America’s attention to Parkland. But further south, gun violence against children is depressingly commonplace. Between 2013 and 2016, 94 kids were killed in shootings in Miami-Dade County alone, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. Students whose communities have been wracked by gun violence find […]
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Best Dancer

Pioneer WinterThey say the best dancers put their partners’ well-being above their own. By that measure, Pioneer Winter is a contemporary dance master. Winter, an MFA recipient, Horatio Alger Scholar, Dennis R. Washington Achievement Scholar, and widely awarded artist, is technically masterful. He’s also incredibly prolific, creating, choreographing, performing, or otherwise supporting the local dance community […]
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Seven Unmissable Films at Miami Film Festival 2019

This Changes Everything. This year, Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival takes a big risk with its opening night film. Generally a place for celebratory, uplifting cinema, the first movie to screen at the festival’s centerpiece venue, the storied Olympia Theater, is a documentary that wags its finger at the...