Miami

At Deering Estate, blue canvases stretch across a waterfront lawn, others extend among mango trees, while still more create a canvas shelter large enough for visitors to step inside. And that is only the beginning. Over the course of a month, Miami-based artist Mette Tommerup’s “High Tide Low Tide” will continually take on new forms.

The Safe and Ready Miami bond is meant to pay for new fire stations and police headquarters, but critics say the city is leveraged too far.

The National Book Award finalists have been announced, with authors like Valeria Luiselli and Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat in the spotlight. Many nominated books tackle issues like gender identity and criminal justice. Danticat's "Dèy" and Luiselli's "Beginning Middle End" are among the fiction finalists. Karl Ove Knausgaard is a finalist in the translation category.

Zumper, an online rental marketplace platform, released its September National Rent Report, ranking Miami sixth among the most expensive U.S. cities for a one-bedroom apartment.

The star-studded Fall movie season kicks off as Miami Film Festival GEMS returns Thursday, Oct. 29. Organized by Miami Dade College, the festival serves as a prime destination for early award-season previews. It runs through Thursday, Nov. 5.

They argue that surrendering valuable public real estate for a sitting president’s project compromises assets earmarked for public education and violates constitutional principles.

A former Miami congressman has been sentenced to 10 in prison for a secret $50 million lobbying campaign for Venezuela during President Donald Trump's first term. Republican David Rivera, a longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has been jailed since being found guilty in May of failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

It explores the ongoing dialectic around the preservation of archaeological remains as urban development continues to reveal a past that still remains to be defined.

After 10 years, a Best Picture win, and over 65 million grossed worldwide, Moonlight is back in theaters with a tenth anniversary re-release from A24 on Oct. 2 in a new 4K remastered cut.

Backed by $100,000 in direct funding, the program aims to champion Miami-based filmmakers by helping them capture the region’s rich, complex history and vibrant culture for the big screen.

Playwright Sheri Wilner-Deering was doing research for her next play. It was the Fall of 2025 and she wanted to write about women who stood up to powerful men. She started searching and found material in court records, all in the public record, including a 2006 Palm Beach grand jury proceeding, where two survivors testified, and a New York hearing after Epstein’s death in 2019, where 23 survivors gave statements. Those accounts became the basis for “The Does,” which will be presented in a staged reading in Miami on Sunday, Oct. 4.

On Friday, the non-partisan Cook Political Report, one of the nation's most respected and closely followed election year analysts, moved the Salazar-Rodriguez race from 'Likely Republican" to "Lean Republican." That means the race is considered "competitive."