Main Street Players presents its 2015 season beginning with A Bicycle Country by Pulitzer-Prize award winning playwright, Nilo Cruz; followed by God of Carnage by Yamina Reza, Reefer Madness The Musical, and The Pot by Glenn Hutchinson. A Bicycle Country will run from February 6 through March 1, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. at the Main Street Playhouse, 6766 Main Street in Miami Lakes. The play is set against the...

  As former Florida Senator Bob Graham watched his daughter, an incoming House Democrat, shake hands with an endless line of visitors, he peeked out of her corner office window at the briskly falling snow and marveled at the symmetry to his own political career. Thirty-six years earlier, a 15-year-old Gwen Graham stood with her father on a frigid outdoor stage in Tallahassee at his first inauguration as Governor. It snowed that day as...

Transfixed by a legal showdown to determine who should be the town’s rightful mayor, Miami Lakes residents appeared to be divided over their support for Mayor Wayne Slaton and former mayor Michael Pizzi, who filed a lawsuit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court to get his old job back. But the schism also suggested the town shouldn’t spend taxpayer’s money for legal expenses and explore other ways to settle the mayoral quandary....

  Miami-Dade County Commissioner Esteban Bovo Jr., in partnership with the Town of Miami Lakes and the Miami-Dade County Internal Services Department, will present a workshop entitled “How to do Business with Miami-Dade County” on Friday, January 23, at Miami Lakes Government Center, 6601 Main Street. Breakfast and registration will be from 7:30 to 8 a.m., with presentations from 8 to 10 a.m., and a question and answer...

  Main hangars from a former World War II blimp base can still be seen from satellite on Google. They now create the landscape of Zoo Miami’s oddly shaped parking lot, one of the many lingering reminders of Miami’s storied past that former Miami Lakes resident and author, Antonio Simon Jr., hopes is not easily forgotten.  Simon has had a lifelong love of history, evident in his recently published book Miami Is Missing:...