Terence Cantarella launches on his four day Canoe Project exploration on Monday morning. Listen to WLRN Miami Herald News (on 91.3 FM/91.5 FM in the Keys) at 8:04 a.m. for launch coverage. Listen to an interview with Terence Cantarella on why and how he's doing this.
Sammy Mack tells the story of the fabled island of Islandia using three things: a book by a gentleman explorer, a vacuum cleaner and a heavy stack of papers. Listen to the story of the city in South Florida you might have never heard of.
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.
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.
He's been called the man who bared it all to cover floors. Under the Sun's Sammy Mack investigates the story behind the zany naked carpet man billboards along I-95, for our "What's Up With South Florida?" segment.
It had been 38 years since Don Bailey posed for his popular naked carpet ad - a spoof of a famous Burt Reynolds picture. In 2010, reporter Sammy Mack convinced Bailey to pose again, wearing exactly the same ... smile.
Miami Herald reporter Trenton Daniel follows Alexandra Azor as she returns to her shattered country, Haiti. She moves back to help rebuild after the earthquake, but she finds herself stuck between two worlds.
Miami Herald reporter Trenton Daniel discusses one of the most memorable stories he covered in the aftermath of Haiti's catastrophic 2010 earthquake-- that of a survivor plucked from the rubble, but still living in misery.
Carmen Mario Romero was one of the four medical workers in Haiti whose voices you heard in "After the Quake: Patients and Healers." We followed the story of Romero after the earthquake, when she made the decision to permanently move to Haiti to devote herself to aid efforts there. Before she left, she'd never been apart from her identical twin for longer than a week. Listen to the story here.
In the months since the earthquake, what have South Florida's planners and developers been able to do to help the reconstruction efforts? Under the Sun's Kenny Malone has that story. Listen here.
Friday, April 13, 2012
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