The seeds of change were planted in Miami Beach in the late 1970s and into the ‘80s. The first two renovated Art Deco hotels, the Cardozo and the Carlyle, reopened in 1978. Vacant storefronts and ...

Neon lights, wild nights, and shoulder pads for days—Miami in the 1980s was pure cinematic chaos. It wasn’t all glitz and glamour, though—behind the flash was a city transforming fast in culture, ...

Drawn to the city’s cheap and easy beach life, thrift shops and seedy glamour, Pierson stayed on for six months working as a busboy at the fabled deli Wolfie’s on Collins Avenue, where a Cuban ...

This two-hour documentary examines the life and untimely death of Arthur Lee McDuffie at the hands of Miami-Dade police officers. This incident was a catalyst for what is being remembered as the ...

Edna Buchanan is the Pulitzer prize-winning crime reporter who covered more than 5,000 violent deaths during her 18-year career at the Miami Herald. She won the Pulitzer for general news reporting in ...

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Jonathan Levin is a columnist focused on US markets and economics. Previously, he worked as a Bloomberg journalist in the US, Brazil and Mexico. He is a CFA charterholder. Anyone who experienced Miami ...