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Roundup | Beyond the food court: Choices for Miami-Dade mall dining

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Dining out at the mall? It may seem like the ultimate in tackiness, but an increasing number of upscale-casual restaurants are setting up shop in South Florida shopping centers. Is it time to forgo the food court frenzy and sit down to a proper meal? ...

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Hatred toward Miami Heat's LeBron James doesn't fit supposed crime

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Published Aug. 19, 2010 at 6:07 p.m.

OK, let's try to examine this because the snowball of disgust for LeBron James is growing so large that it seems everyone outside of his new city is rolling along with it without a full understanding of what's at the source ...

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Sister cities share a building bond after Haiti quake

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Published May 22, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

It's a relationship that stretches back years, and has provided a few garbage trucks and delegation visits ... But on Friday, the sisterly ties between the city of Miami and this quake-ravaged capital got stronger when Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and Port-au-Prince Mayor Jean-Yves Jason donned hard hats, and symbolically broke ground on a new administration building ...

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Miami Beach's Vinyl & Kai caters to breakfast lovers

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Published May 20, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

The black vinyl records adorning the walls may be flat as proverbial pancakes, but the vanilla pancakes on the menu are nice and fluffy at Vinyl & Kai, a hip new place on Washington Avenue that offers breakfast 18 hours a day along with a wide-ranging bistro menu and live music four nights a week ...

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FIU seeks $1M state grant for Americas conference, other events

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Published May 20, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

When Gov. Charlie Crist looks over the new state budget, he'll see three words over and over again: Florida International University ... Miami-based FIU was politically well-positioned this year with a Miami lawmaker in charge of assembling the budget -- and it shows. The school is even seeking a $1 million grant partly on the grounds that one of its partners in a venture, The Miami Herald, cannot afford to give the university the financial backing it once provided. (The Herald and the St.

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Florida voters split on oil drilling amendment

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Published May 22, 2010 at 3:17 p.m.

As the Deepwater Horizon disaster threatens Florida's shores, state voters are growing more opposed to offshore oil drilling and now are evenly divided about whether to amend the state Constitution to ban the practice, according to a new Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times poll ...

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Bob Graham vows to give BP, big oil a fair hearing

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Published May 23, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Bob Graham said he didn't hesitate when White House officials called for him to head an independent commission into the Gulf oil spill ... ``This was so important, so immediate and will have such a big impact on Florida and, if the president asks you to do something, you can't say no,'' the former Florida governor and U.S. senator told The Miami Herald on Saturday ...

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Miami Dolphins' Karlos Dansby already earning praise

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Published May 23, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

New Miami linebacker Karlos Dansby is ready to prove that he will be the leader of the team's new-look defense ...

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Gallery | Gay youth group Pridelines celebrates move into Miami Shores office

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Published June 11, 2010 at 7:09 a.m.

Pridelines Youth Services has moved into a new office near 95th Street and Northeast Second Avenue in Miami Shores. The new offices feature a bank of computers donated by the David Bohnett Foundation in California. Pridelines is a social and ...

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The Forge reopens with new attitude

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Published May 16, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

In the 1990s, at the height of the post-renaissance party on Miami Beach, long before the market crashed and the real-estate free-for-all reached judgment day, the crowd at The Forge guzzled $700 bottles of bubbly as if it were tap water. Tap water was an indignity. The Bentleys, Ferraris and Lambos double-parked at the valet line told the story ...

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