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Double, double, toil and trouble, Halloween 2020 is upon us… Better make it a double! Like most holidays in 2020, Halloween will look a lot different from years past. Gone are the days of crammed nightclubs and carefree trick-or-treating at the mall. But that doesn’t mean the spooky season is dead and buried. South Florida’s […]

The Mai-Kai, one of the last classic American tiki restaurants, shut its doors today with no advance warning. An email sent to media and past guests stated the following: The Mai-Kai Restaurant & Polynesian Show will be closed effective today and for the upcoming months. While we don’t have a reopen date finalized, we will […]

In 2020, there are plenty of things scarier than ghosts and goblins. But as Miami tries to resume some semblance of normalcy, locals will do what they do best: party. Halloween will surely be different this year as the festivities around it adjust to our reality. Luckily, masks are a thing people wear on Halloween, […]

Halloween might look different this year owing to COVID-19, but there is no reason you should entirely skip the most spooktacular holiday of the year. In addition to the blue moon that will illuminate our skies this Saturday, October 31, local restaurants and bars are offering entertainment and bewitching specials to help you celebrate Halloween. […]

The candidate raises a wine glass to his lips and looks into the camera. He extends a finger for each passing second of his sip: one… two… three… four… five, followed by an emphatic “Ahhhhhhhhh!” It’s late July, and Juan Melecio, a 42-year-old former salon owner who lives in Wilton Manors with his husband, is […]

In this especially divisive election season, Americans have shattered early-voting records. Millions of Floridians had already cast mail-in ballots by the time early in-person voting began October 19. With Election Day less than a week away, nearly half of active registered voters in Miami-Dade have cast their ballots either in person or by mail. Still, […]

This summer’s widespread social-justice protests demanding police reform, racial equity, investment in social services, and a reckoning on systemic racism cast a spotlight on Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. Various states and cities have since made Juneteenth a paid holiday for their workers. Now, Miami-Dade commissioners have approved a […]

City of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s long-standing feud with Ball & Chain owner Bill Fuller reads like an ode to spitefulness. From allegedly calling in several false code complaints against the iconic Little Havana bar to purportedly staking it out late at night and yelling, “I am the law!” when confronted by an employee — […]

If you’re on the hunt for a milestone with a nice ring to it, look no further. Swank Specialty Produce is celebrating its 20th year in 2020. Beloved by seekers of rare produce a go-to for chefs seeking a bedazzling ingredient — be it microgreens, a killer Asian spring mix, or edible flowers — the […]

Photographer, writer, and philanthropist Josefina Tarafa was born into a wealthy family at the start of the 20th Century in Havana. She had the privilege of an education, and from a young age, she studied languages such as English and French and was taught how to act in society according to her social status. Despite […]