Under The Sun

Interview: Jad Abumrad of Radiolab

Many thanks to all of the WLRN listeners who submitted questions and suggestions for Dan Grech's interview with Radiolab host Jad Abumrad. Listen to the interviews here.

Miami Outlaw

Terence Cantarella takes in a stray and battered dog--a pit bull. It's illegal to have a pit bull in Miami-Dade. Cantarella tries to find a way to get rid of the dog that sits well with his conscience. It doesn't quite work out. Listen to the story here.

Radiolab is coming to South Florida/Interview with Jad Abumrad [Updated]

Radiolab is the kind of show that you've either never heard of or you love. If you love Radiolab, how would you describe it to those who've never heard of it?

Fiction: Dolphins, Oysters and Crabs

Jeremy Glazer writes about that weird liminal space between high school graduation and supposed adulthood. It's set against the backdrop of Key Biscayne. Listen to his latest work of fiction.

How Wilton Manors Came Out

It used to be that Key West, Victoria Park and South Beach were the centers of gay life in South Florida. Over the last decade, this tiny town of about 12,000 people, just outside of Fort Lauderdale – has taken over. Wilton Manors has more same-sex couples per capita than anyplace but Provincetown, Massachusetts. Kenny Malone tells the story of how this little village surrounded by metropolitan South Florida became a gay mecca.

Bunny Yeager: “Sexy in a Nice Way”

Local photographer Bunny Yeager was behind the lens for some of the most classic images of 1950s pinup girls. Now the art world has discovered her.

From alien to citizen

Former immigration reporter and Under the Sun producer Ruth Morris decides it's finally time to leave her permanent resident alien status behind and become a U.S. citizen.

Not your average science conference

WLRN's Dan Grech crossed an item off his bucket list and reported the opening story of this week's episode of This American Life. Dan got back to his nerdy roots and covered a conference in Orlando on building a spaceship to travel to the stars.

Front-row seat to Death Row execution

Before his execution by lethal injection on September 28, Manuel Valle had spent 33 years on Death Row for killing a Coral Gables police officer in 1978. Miami Herald reporter Patricia Mazzei was at the execution, just a few feet away from the 61-year-old Valle. Although she recognized the heinousness of his crime, she couldn't help feel pity for the man who would close his eyes for the last time.

Finding solace, a new life in Miami

On September 11, 2001, Tanya Villanueva Tepper's fiancé, Sergio Villanueva, was one of the 343 New York City firefighters who didn't make it out of the World Trade Center. Tanya is featured in the new documentary, Rebirth, which follows five people affected by those attacks, over the course of the last decade. The picture of the New York City skyline was provided by Sister72 on Flickr.