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Features, Highlights

From Shattered to Secure: Scott Mulvaney’s Journey from Homeless to Housed Through the VA

For Marine Corps Veteran Scott Mulvaney, gratefulness is his state of mind.

“If it weren’t for the VA, I’d be dead. I would not be alive.”

With an easy smile and kind eyes, Mulvaney speaks earnestly about his experiences. As a formerly unhoused Veteran, his journey with the VA led him from sleeping in his car to running the Heroes Golf Course, having a home on the West LA VA Campus, and helping countless other Veterans.

His story starts with a stint in the Marine Corps. Years later, undiagnosed PTSD and depression coupled with job loss led to two bouts with homelessness.

“It was like being frozen, I was really broken … in a way you become very fragile because you don’t know who you are at that point,” Mulvaney said. “All the anchors you held onto before, all the things that gave you meaning, and stability are gone.”

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Features, Plant-Based Food & Drink

Plant-Based Meat: The Future of Food?

When Sadrah Schadel and Mike Woliansky rolled up to a farmers market in Asheville, NC, with a cooler full of plant-based meat in 2014, they never imagined how far their wares would take them.

They started with a vision: to make plant-based meats from healthy, whole- food, environmentally friendly ingredients that had the taste and texture to satisfy the average meat eater. Today, their No Evil Foods products are in more than 5,000 retailers nationwide.

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Features, Plant-Based Food & Drink

Summer cocktails list for New Times’ Short Order blog

What is it about summer that so begets boozing? The sizzling temps, the skimpy clothes, the longer days, and sweltering nights — all just goad you to get a good buzz going.

So in the interest of summer imbibing, Short Order spoke to mixologists at some of Miami’s most creative bars for a few refreshing recipes you can create at home.

Cheers to what’s sure to be one hot summer.

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Art feature for the New Times’ Cultist blog

It’s a good time to be an artist in Miami. First, Americans for the Arts announced that Miami-Dade county spent upwards of $1 billion on cultural events in 2010. And now, it’s looking like that number will only increase in the coming years.

ArtPlace, a philanthropic collaboration between the National Endowment for the Arts, the Knight Foundation, and various other monied organizations, has awarded grants totaling $745,000 to members of Miami’s creative set.

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Events, Features

Miami New Times event preview

Admit it — a knock-down, drag-out battle royal gets your bloodlust boiling. And when you add wheels to that hip-checking and shoulder-slamming, even better. So indulge your barbarous desires with a night out in support of Miami’s flat-track derby team, the Vice City Rollers. This conglomeration of chicks on wheels will go skate-to-skate against the Dub City Roller Girls, belles of the brawl visiting from West Palm Beach in their second game of the season. Founded in 2011, our hometown team is bringing kickass back to South Florida and helping local charities to boot. Derby newbies can learn the ropes (or rather, the ring) and watch these femmes power-jam their way to victory.

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Features, Highlights, Plant-Based Food & Drink

Dining list for New Times’ Short Order blog

Bottomless booze is a beautiful thing. And nothing says Sunday morning hangover cure like free-flowing bubbles (or bloodies). Lucky for the lush among us, there are lots of Miami brunch spots offering weekend libations to soothe that queasy stomach and bring back that pleasant buzz.

So next time Saturday night’s festivities leave you a little worse for the wear, here’s a lineup of eateries where you can get your day drinking on. Cheers.

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Easter list for New Times’ Cultist blog

Easter Sunday is almost upon us, and for plenty of people, that means stiff church pews, guilt-inducing sermons, and forced family time.

All that stuff gets old quick, even among the pious. And we at Cultist are, well, not so pious.

If you’re like us — i.e. you didn’t know Easter was this weekend until your mom called to passive-aggressively ask you which church service you’d be attending — you’re probably looking for ways to spend this Sunday that are a little less traditional. And we’ve got you covered.

Check out these five ways to get your seven deadly sins on this Easter.

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Feature Article for FOXNews.com

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America has been outclassed, and by an unlikely competitor.

In the realm of alternative energy, there is an inconspicuous European nation that could stand to teach the U.S. a few lessons — Denmark.

Besides being home to the world’s happiest people, according to a study this year by a social psychologist at England’s University of Leicester, this small country, badly battered by oil shocks in decades past, has become a leader in the field of renewable energy.

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