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About a year ago I moved from rainy Dublin to sunny Miami. As a kid I remembered the opening credits of the cop show This cheesy 1980s cop show may have made Miamians cringe, but to a child in damp, gray Ireland, the place looked like heaven.

Downtown Miami has come a long way since its earlier incarnation as a business-only hub that went dark after hours, a group of advocates for the area agreed Friday.

It's an amazing time to be a cinephile in South Florida. What was once an all-but-ignored town for anything that wasn't coming out of Hollywood now boasts a robust art house cinema scene of five theaters dedicated to indie, foreign and art films- each with a distinct character, audience, and programming.

For 20 years, one company has held the monopoly on Broward County's trash disposal.

Saturday’s horror-movie episode on the MacArthur Causeway brought together two troubled men, one who was struggling to get his life on track, another who’d given up trying.

New Times' Best of Miami 2012 issue is coming June 14. Until then, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305.

For the past month, British adventurer Dave Cornthwaite has peddled a small bike-car from Memphis to Miami.

Miami has new residents -- for now. Justin Vallee and Jeremiah Taylor, the artistic duo that is 2Square , travel the world like creative nomads, leaving their graffiti, poetry, photography, and even nontraditional hair styling along the way.

International Finance Bank filed an application with regulators to move its headquarters to a LEED Gold-certified building in Miami.

Well, it's better than Brett Ratner Day. Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman has issued a proclamation officially recognizing June 5 as "Michael Bay Day." Yes, Michael Bay the director of Bad Boys , Transformers , and the upcoming Pain and Gain .

Over the last few years, Miami nightlife has seen a definite paradigm shift. And it coincides with the emergence of DJ-promotions collective LINK .

We all love the C-A-N-E-S cheer led by the iconic Hurricanes mascot Sebastian the Ibis, but at some point you must have wondered...how did that crazy bird become the face of University of Miami athletics? In 1926 the University of Miami named their school's yearbook "The Ibis" and thereby unofficially introduced the future mascot of the Hurricanes.

Legend has it that Ponce de LeA3n discovered Florida while searching for "the Fountain of Youth." Historians know, however, this is just a poor translation of "good tunes and a $6 PBR & Jameson combo." In any case, ever since April 2, 1513, Miami has been a hothouse for new musical strains and a must-visit spot for the day's most discerning bands.

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Early Wednesday, a trio of uniformed Miami motorcycle cops on a special detail - ticketing motorists who fail to yield to crossing pedestrians - gamely tried to patrol the river of traffic that is Brickell Avenue's Eighth Street intersection.

Ronald Edwar Poppo, the victim of a horrible assault that cost him his face, was once a student at the elite Stuyvesant High School in New York.

Five years after unsuccessfully targeting two prominent Miami figures - one a banker, the other a lawyer - in separate cases, a Justice Department prosecutor faces a July disciplinary trial by Maryland Bar regulators.

This combo made with undated photos made available by the Miami-Dade Police Dept.

Calzadilla was well known in South Florida for his role as a public information officer, in which he often appeared on television as the face of the department, answering questions about the department and about criminal cases.

By Michael Lewis Miami Today this week starts its 30th year providing vital knowledge to intent readers overwhelmed by fluff that passes for news.