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• Brunch Alert - Chocolate Fashion

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  Today El Hombre and I woke up to very little food in our kitchen, a stormy morning and hungry.  We are in the finish stages of remodeling our kitchen and are getting a new fridge tomorrow, so we didn't want to risk losing groceries.  Plus we have both been' [...]
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• Could Stephen Morris be the guy? And other UM Canes tidbits from ACC Football Kickoff

  The first day of the ACC Football Kickoff is behind us, and what awaits Monday -- following what is expected to be a groundbreaking NCAA announcement regarding Penn State -- should be some intriguing discussions. UM Coach Al Golden and the head coaches speak tomorrow, and since head coaches are [...]

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• Payá death doesn’t pass the smell test.

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  When I heard the news that Oswaldo Payá had been killed in a car wreck I immediately thought of this video. Ladies in White founder Laura Pollan was giving an interview to an Italian film crew in a car when suddenly the car she was in was struck.

  Payá's death [...]

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• Miami Beach Luxury Real Estate: 2012 Mid-Year Waterfront Stats and So Much More

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  So last year at this time I proclaimed, “Miami Beach Luxury Real Estate is Back… and in a Big Way!”

  When I made that statement, I had no idea what was to come. The stats I’m putting out today completely blow everything away — everything ever. Miami Beach luxury real estate [...]

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• Message from Cedric McMinn, Executive Director of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party [VIDEO]

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  by Vanessa Woodard Byers

  During the Immanuel Temple 'Come Together Day 2012' community celebration at Golden Glades Elementary School on Saturday, July 21, I had the pleasure of recording this video message from Cedric A. McMinn, Executive Director of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party.

   

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• Cirque du Soleil Dralion

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  New Year’s Eve 2010 I went to see Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza in downtown Miami. A few days later I was trolling around on Twitter and met my friend Ofelia over some of her photos of the event. We have other things in common, but our love of Cirque [...]

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• Notice: In search of information on poet Alpheus Butler, Jr.

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  Historian Canter Brown, Jr., is researching the life and work of Florida poet James Alpheus Butler, Jr.  Associated with the Harlem Renaissance, Alpheus Butler was born in Miami during 1905 and died at Tampa in 1977.  He published several books of fine poetry and was acknowledged [...]

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• Genting's election year strategy: big checks and many bets

  Genting Group, the Malaysian casino giant, is seeding its bets across Florida’s political spectrum this election year as it continues to secure the foothold it needs to build a Miami casino empire.

  The company, which bought the Miami Herald building in downtown Miami with $236 million in cash in 2011 and tried [...]

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• Swamped pier

  Actually, that's an old logging tram.
  
  But by "old" I mean younger than Naples Pier.
  
  Can you see the shallowly-
  submerged corduroy road? The latter is over a hundred years old,
  
  And has been destroyed and rebuilt several times in that span. (Click here to read a [...]
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• ASK IRA: Do Heat need to add a center?

  Q: Will the Heat necessarily even add another center if they're not even going to play a true center? -- Jay, Miami.
  
  

  
  

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