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...book The Year of Dangerous Days, about the fraught climate of the Miami of 1980: a city beset by soaring crime rates, a refugee crisis and a drug epidemic....
...In recent years, political and financial instability in Latin American nations have helped drive immigration, leading some to nickname the Spanish capital the “new Miami” — the city in Florida has been a...
...Before I’d learned to drive, or had even heard of cocaine, I was the premier drug kingpin of 1980s Miami....
...“It is about black Britain and what it is to be working class,” he says of his Converge gilet, for example, which was acquired by the V&A for its collection in 2021. “It is descriptive of urban life....
...A $430mn construction loan secured by a luxury Miami condominium development is Florida’s largest this year, winning the backing of JPMorgan at a time when credit has grown scarce for property developers...
...Existing collectors are also kept engaged by the round of parties and dinners at fairs such as Art Basel Miami Beach....
...Florida, which I’ve visited a lot, is technically part of the south but I never really think of it as such, partly because Miami is such a unique city....
...I had never been there, apart from via Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,” Spiegler says, referring to the video game set in a fictional version of Miami....
...of contemporary art provides an alternative view of the Eternal City....
...Later that month, she tried Ronan Farrow at The New Yorker and, the next year, the Miami Herald’s Julie K Brown, who had uncovered the sweetheart deal Florida prosecutors made with Epstein....
...While Miami on the whole is rapidly becoming a gourmet city, I recently spent time in Brickell to get a taste of the neighbourhood’s culinary culture....
...Jeremy Ford is executive chef partner of Stubborn Seed in Miami Beach, which recently earned one of the first Michelin stars to be awarded in Florida, and The Butcher’s Club in Palm Beach Gardens Share...
...The restaurant, formerly the much-loved Café Boulud, will be replaced by an outpost of the also very fine but flashier Miami institution Casa Tua....
...Curry grew up in Carol City, a district in Miami-Gardens, the city with the highest proportion of African-American people in Florida....
...a white one in Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida.)...
...“If you had asked me in the beginning of 2020, ‘What’s the probability of you moving to Florida?’...
...Still, don’t count on the Carters joining the supposed exodus of New Yorkers to Miami. “We hate Florida....
...There’s never a bad time to be in Miami — but Art Week, when the city is alive with dozens of art fairs and exhibitions, is by far my favourite occasion to visit....
...With recent extensions into Wynwood Doors and Garden, and now under the guidance of Goldman’s daughter Jessica, Wynwood Walls has become a respected “museum of the streets” and a visitor’s delight....
...The frenetic pace of the city, its noise and bustle, means a little dose of alcohol at the end of the day (and occasionally in the middle) is no less than medicinal....
...Streets on Miami Beach already overflow regularly, even on dry days. For now, South Florida is booming regardless....
...Country weddings, marquee events and garden parties will invariably involve some sort of turf. Let’s assume that the weather is behaving and it’s not a Glastonbury mud pit....
...arrival of Florida’s first Jews, in 1763....
...Superblue, a for-profit business staging immersive art installations, was launched in Miami this April, with 50,000 sq ft of a former fruit warehouse in the city’s quickly gentrifying Allapattah neighbourhood...
...Why isn’t the mayor of Miami, or the governor of Florida, being asked about that? They’re not being punished at all. It’s like people think it’s in the hands of the gods.”...
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