North Miami

2013 State of the Union: Full prepared transcript

2013-02-12 18:00:00

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...

Jose Curbelo dies at 95; Latin jazz bandleader

2012-09-24 00:00:00

Jose Curbelo, a Latin jazz bandleader, agent and promoter who helped popularize the cha-cha in the United States and made Tito Puente a star, has died. He was 95. A resident of North Miami Beach, Curbelo died Friday of heart failure at a hospital in...

Death in Miami

2010-11-20 04:32:45

'Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen' by David Sax

2009-11-08 00:00:00

Save the Deli In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen David Sax Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 320 pp., $24 The wandering of the Jews is frozen in the marble of the corned beef on rye. The fall of the Temple, the...

Riotous video artist Ryan Trecartin to take over MOCA Pacific Design Center this summer

2010-05-24 16:32:54

Party all day and night in glittery, glamorous Miami

2008-05-11 00:00:00

Miami Fifteen minutes behind Paris Hilton. An hour behind Michael Caine. A day behind Queen Latifah. Everywhere I went in Miami I just missed a celebrity. The only name I didn't hear was Britney Spears. Everyone else in the celestial pantheon seemed...

Sculptor Jorge Pardo: Is it art or furniture?

2008-06-08 00:00:00

PERHAPS IT is the polymorphic exuberance of Los Angeles sculptor Jorge Pardo that made him seem such a natural to reinvent L.A. County Museum of Art's display of pre-Columbian art. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Jorge Pardo: An article in today'...

Driver in crash that killed 13-year-old boy released from ORMC

2013-06-16 00:00:00

The driver in deadly crash that killed a 13-year-old Kissimmee boy Friday has been discharged from the Orlando Regional Medical Center, officials say. Ismael Patterson, 18, of North Miami was hospitalized after the van he was driving rolled over and...

Race, faith and honesty shape jury selection

2013-06-15 18:35:04

SANFORD, Fla. One African American father bristled at media stories pushing "racial connotations" and civil rights leaders' "saber rattling" in the Trayvon Martin slaying. Another potential juror, a white, middle-aged, goateed musician, seemed impartial,...

JetBlue launches Lauderdale-Medellin route with festivities

2013-06-14 00:00:00

Some passengers arriving Thursday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to board JetBlue Airways Flight 541 to Medellin, Colombia, were wondering what all the commotion was about. The balloons, music, folk dancers, refreshments and giveways...

Push to sweep homeless into shelters ignites debate

2013-06-13 05:20:03

MIAMI A political battle is mounting over the chronically homeless in downtown Miami. In one corner: the Miami City Commission, led by Chairman Marc Sarnoff, and the semi-autonomous Downtown Development Authority. They argue that a 15-year-old legal...

Inmate seeks circumcision

2013-06-11 11:25:00

A Florida prison inmate is asking the state's corrections department for permission to be circumcised. Pablo Manuel Diaz, 37, of Miami-Dade County, who is serving a life sentence at the Blackwater Correctional Facility in Milton, sent a letter to the...

Prices are tuition and fees, 2010-2011: $24,429 City: North Miami Website: www.jwu.edu Type: Private

2013-05-24 15:35:00

The InterContinental at Doral Miami and the Overseas Chinese Business Chamber hosted the Overseas Chinese Gala in celebration of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.

2013-05-23 08:46:00

Sebastian Cobas and Kendra Haynes are part of the Brazilian zouk scene in North Miami Beach on Monday nights.

2013-05-21 00:00:00