Practical guides to Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach
Practical guides to Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach
This section covers the people and places that explain how South Florida got this way, from Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the fight over the Everglades to the cocaine cowboy years that put Miami on every front page. You'll find guides to Little Haiti and Little Havana's Calle Ocho, the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes out along Tamiami Trail and in Big Cypress, and the art, film and music that grew out of these communities.
Each guide starts with the short answer, then gives the background and the places worth seeing in person. Museum hours, festival dates and tribal attraction schedules change, so check with the venue or tribe directly before you drive out.
When the history lesson works up an appetite, our food and events coverage points you to griot, cafecito and the festivals worth planning around. For neighborhood-level detail, start with the Miami-Dade city guides.
Profiles of the people who shaped the region, from Everglades defenders to the figures behind Miami's drug-war era.
Guides to Cuban, Haitian and wider Caribbean South Florida, with what to see, eat and know in places like Little Haiti and Little Havana.
Plain introductions to the Seminole and Miccosukee people and the events that built Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas was the Miami writer whose 1947 book The Everglades: River of Grass turned a “worthless swamp” into a river worth saving, and whose activism from age 79…
Little Haiti is the Haitian heart of Miami, a neighborhood north of downtown along NE 2nd Avenue where you can see Serge Toussaint’s murals, browse the Caribbean Marketplace, eat griot…
The Seminole Indians are a Native American people who formed in Florida in the 1700s and today make up two federally recognized tribes in our region: the Seminole Tribe of…
Griselda Blanco was the Colombian trafficker who ran one of South Florida’s biggest cocaine operations in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and whose crews helped make Miami the murder…