Overtown

Assault Rifles Are Big Business in Florida as Federal Ban Looms

Miami's Best Youth Football Team Beats Opponents, Violence, Gambling, and Turmoil

Filmed in Fort Lauderdale, "Rock of Ages" Posits Hair Metal as Something Un-Awful

Cops Say South Florida Protesters Busted in Chicago Are Terrorists; Friends Call Bullshit

March 13 was shaping up to be another day of protests and partying at Fort Peace, Occupy Miami's grungy Overtown safe house. More than a dozen members had shaken off their hangovers and emerged to demonstrate against a bank. But before they could gather their handmade signs and head downtown, the pl ... More >>

Peace, Love, and Budweiser

Rebirth of Cool

Interview with Chef, Restaurateur and Author Michael Schwartz, Part I

​In 2007 Michael Schwartz opened Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami's Design District. Almost immediately it became "the" place to go for good, clean food that was friendly to the environment and the community. in 2009, Michael's Genuine Food & Drink opened a second location ... More >>

Nature of Purvis Young's Death Confuses, Upsets Friends and Fans

Photo by Flickr user nyti07Purvis Young with some of his art​Purvis Young spent most of his life free: riding his bike up and down Overtown streets, coming and going as he pleased, and staying up all night to paint. When the prolific mixed-media artist died last week, he was confined to a nursing ... More >>

Did State-Appointed Guardians Bankrupt Purvis Young?

Photo by Flickr user nyti07Purvis Young with some of his work.​Larry Clemons almost threw up this morning when he read in the paper that Purvis Young, who died yesterday at 67 of cardiac arrest, passed away penniless. "That's absolutely disgusting. When I was there for Purvis, he had money," says ... More >>

Artist Purvis Young, Dead at 67, Remembered by Good Friend, Curator

He found Purvis Young in 1992, sitting on a milk crate under a Miami overpass, sketching. Young never drove, or had a driver's license, but instead would bike around Overtown, stopping to draw people he saw on the streets. In the process he had documented the riots of the early '80s, the burning of ... More >>

Blast From the Past: Jaco Pastorius' Self-Titled Debut Album.

Gallery 721: Pop culture and Purvis Young

At Florida Memorial University, Surviving Beatings, Gunshots, and Assaults Is Part of the Curriculum

The Hunt for Haleigh Cummings Could Bring Down a Badass Bounty Hunter

Feel the Blues, the Right Way

Double Whammy

The ultimate South Florida outsider artist, Purvis Young, is the subject of a pair of mini-retrospectives.

Marlins Fans to Celebrate Opening Day 2012 on I-95

estadiodellosmarlins.comThe Little Havana Marlins will be this much fun.The Marlins will open their season in 2012 with a new stadium in Little Havana, meaning fans in Broward and Palm Beach counties who used to go to Dolphins Stadium will forget we have major-league baseball in South Florida.Being ... More >>

Charlie Pickett & The Eggs Buy Heroin From Overtown

      As long as we're talkin about Charlie Pickett getting his due, here's one of the reasons why, this video for the song "Overtown" written by Dave Froshneider and performed by "Charlie Pickett and The Eggs" is some real pioneer shit. Now, I'll admit it, I ... More >>

Holy Hustler

Pastor Spann will save Liberty City's soul one addict at a time — if he can stay out of jail.

On the List - Tony Rohr, White Room One Year and Sébastien Léger

Happy New Year, ya'll! It's 2009 and with the economy going south, everyone seems to be looking for answers at the bottom of a bottle -- and that means more parties! And January is already gearing up to be spectacular. But let us not get ahead of ourselves, because here is what you definitely want ... More >>

Karu & Why Are You Opening Back Up Again?

Fast & Fury

Ten years later, the fury are still grinding out the yardage. Barely.

Four Years Later, DJ's Death Still Unsolved

The Outskirts of Deep City

"Purvis Young: The Angels Exhibition 2007"

Raw Power

Just released from prison, Miami hip-hop icon DJ Raw is ready for the takeover

Scattered Flowers

A Great One

Purvis of Overtown

Nothing But an Artist

Purvis Young still gets his inspiration from the turbulence of Miami streets.

Gantt Rants Against Leonard Pitts

Coleman Stove

The right Rev. King Coleman passes the mashed potatoes

Sacred Science

William Cordova blends hi-tech with lo-fi

Biting Pandas

Mr. Pretty Guitar ate his spinach. Now he will kick your ass.

Hustling the Hood

Does it matter to blacks which wealthy, middle-aged white guy is Florida's next governor?

Belly Up to the Cybar

A frustrated filmmaker wants to help Web surfers cruise local clubs

City Displaced

A new West Palm shopping mecca is attracting some folks downtown. Others will have to leave.

So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star?

Inside the music business with Eric Kline

Mean Streets

Getting rid of those folks with buckets equals getting rid of one of the county's better homeless-assistance programs.

The Art of Neglect

After years of shoddy care, the once-valuable art collection at Lake Worth's Museum of Contemporary Art is in disarray, as is the museum's future

Rubble Rouser

What Happens When the Big Tent Folds?

Broward's ballyhooed new homeless shelter won't clear the streets of all vagrants. But the police might.