The cost of last year’s election fiasco for Miami taxpayers may double this week, if the Miami City Commission agrees to pay $150,000 in legal fees incurred by former mayoral candidate Emilio Gonzalez. Gonzalez went to court last year to prevent the city from moving the 2025 general election to[Read More…]
Spotlight Staff
Greenway, Density Transfer Proposals Postponed
A highly anticipated Wednesday night meeting of Miami’s Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board (PZAB) was canceled after the panel failed to reach a quorum, leaving close to 75 residents and other stakeholders — many of whom had planned to speak — unable to be heard. The agenda included two closely[Read More…]
April’s Promise: Local Poets, Local Playwrights
April is National Poetry Month, and local poets and their fans are taking full advantage, with a crowded calendar of events in the weeks ahead. Local filmmakers, playwrights and actors get a chance to shine this month as well, with the return of the Miami Film Festival (43rd edition) and[Read More…]
Permit Clinics for Grove Homeowners and Small Businesses
Miami Commissioner Damian Pardo and his staff are launching a monthly series of permit clinics to help Coconut Grove homeowners and small businesses obtain permits from the City of Miami. The clinics will be held on the first Friday of the month beginning this week on Friday April 3 from[Read More…]
Between Code and Calm
The week finds a kind of shared ground between the creative frontier of A.I. and the quiet clarity of meditation. One asks what it means to make something at all — who holds the authorship, where the boundaries sit — while the other steps back from all of it, if[Read More…]
Old Smokey Lawsuit Wins Class Action Status
Miami Commissioner Damian Pardo and his staff are launching a monthly series of permit clinics to help Coconut Grove homeowners and small businesses obtain permits from the City of Miami. The clinics will be held on the first Friday of the month beginning this week on Friday April 3 from[Read More…]
Put Away Your Umbrella
Last week everyone stayed out of the rain, but this weekend the sidewalks have dried off and it’s time to get out. Wolverines set an appropriately leisurely pace in Kennedy Park, and the rest of the week follows that cue with music, conversations, and a few reasons to leave the[Read More…]
Florida Legislature Approves E-Bike Legislation
The Florida State Legislature has approved new statewide rules for how e-bikes may be operated when sharing a sidewalk or pathway with pedestrians. The Florida House voted 112-0 this week to approve legislation previously passed by the State Senate. Under the new law, which is expected to take effect on[Read More…]
Two Coconut Grove Women Honored
The Miami City Commission honored two Black women from Coconut Grove on Thursday, voting unanimously to name a portion of Franklin Street in the West Grove for Thelma Gibson and her husband Theodore, and a new aquatic facility at Elizabeth Virrick Park for Verneka Sturrup Silva. The Rev. Theodore Gibson[Read More…]
Try not to whisper: “That’s the Grove”
Don’t make a scene when you elbow your partner and whisper, that’s the Grove! Ethan Bloom, directed by local filmmaker Herschel Faber, follows a 13-year-old who is supposed to be preparing for his bar mitzvah but instead finds himself drawn toward the Catholic church. Along the way appear a patient[Read More…]
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