Your best defense against the coming A.I. apocalypse may involve knot-tying, campfires and a walk through the woods. Scout groups are forming now, and that’s only the beginning of a week that also includes free trees, bird walks, theater, live music, civic forums. Staying home would be an unforced error. [Read More…]
News Briefs
Where We’ll Be: Miami Pretends Fall Has Arrived
If you can’t believe it’s autumn, you’re not alone. Miami Spice extended its run through Halloween – an official declaration that shorts remain appropriate civic attire. Still, the cultural tide is rising like the king tides. The moon pulls people into Fairchild after dark, theater serves up an anxious weather girl, and Saturday offers live music from the Grove to Coral Gables to Miami Beach.
New E-Bike Safety Rules Proposed in Miami
Nine months after a Coconut Grove couple was struck from behind and severely injured near Kennedy Park by a teenager on an electric dirt bike, the City Commission will consider new restrictions on how and where e-bikes can be ridden in Miami. The proposed legislation – introduced by Miami District[Read More…]
County Saves Early-Morning Bus Service, but Grove Cuts Remain
Early-morning service on three bus routes serving Coconut Grove has been spared, but late-night service and another Grove route remain slated for elimination next year. Miami-Dade commissioners approved $12.5 million Thursday to preserve service before 6 a.m. on 45 Metrobus routes, including routes 22, 27 and 37 in Coconut Grove.[Read More…]
Where We’ll Be: Cheap Dates, Good Music, Big Weekend
Summer may still have Miami by the thermostat, but the fall calendar has clearly arrived. This weekend alone brings Shakespeare, symphonic winds, circus arts, live jazz, bird-friendly gardening, coastal cleanups, brunch in the Grove and a first-rate New World Symphony concert for whatever you feel like paying. Much of it[Read More…]
Miami Accepts $300,000 for Coconut Grove Circuit Service
Miami commissioners have formally accepted up to $300,000 from the Coconut Grove Business Improvement District (BID) to help fund Circuit, the on-demand rideshare service that launched in the Grove in May. Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution Thursday authorizing City Manager James Reyes to accept the money and work with the[Read More…]
Where We’ll Be: Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs. The fall performance schedules are filling in, and now the game is to claim your seat before somebody else does. New World Symphony is opening its season, Actors’ Playhouse is rolling out Jekyll & Hyde and The Wizard of Oz, GableStage has a New York Times favorite on[Read More…]
Where We’ll Be: Loosen Your Belt
Schools started weeks ago, Labor Day weekend is here and Miami Spice is already halfway gone. Surely you can manage six meals in three days—lunch and dinner Saturday, Sunday and Monday, all literally under your belt—with friends you haven’t seen since everyone scattered for summer. Check the restaurant schedules, make[Read More…]
Cyclist Hospitalized After Rickenbacker Causeway Crash
A cyclist was hospitalized after a crash involving a vehicle Saturday morning on the Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami police said. Officers responded at about 8:30 a.m. Aug. 29 to the crash at 3501 Rickenbacker Causeway on Virginia Key, near Miami Marine Stadium, according to Miami Police Department spokesperson Kiara Delva. The cyclist[Read More…]
Where We’ll Be: Start Filling the Calendar
Summer is packing up and the concert calendars are spilling onto the table. Theaters are announcing their seasons, the concert halls are tuning up, and a remarkable amount of what’s coming is free, nearly free or cheap enough that there’s really no excuse to stay home. So start filling in[Read More…]
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