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.
In this piece, four medical professionals recount how their patients broke into song in a makeshift medical tent, despite the desperate circumstances. One doctor describes the moment as a tipping point, in which the patients lifted their healers.
You may think the "seltzer man" went the way of the rotary phone, but Paul Urbant still delivers seltzer bottles. He came to Miami via Buenos Aires and New York City. He is a "sodero" who travels throughout South Florida, delivering bottles to front doors. Listen to the story here.
Under The Sun has won several awards in recent weeks, for stories on everything from surviving the condo crisis to working as a professional mermaid...
The "Tale of Lot 180" continues when producer Kenny Malone hears from another relative of Udavilla Rutherford.
Under the Sun and WLRN Miami Herald News reporter Kenny Malone checks out the documentary "Fuacata," about a very Miami band, that's very close to our ears.
Every year Florida’s Bureau of Unclaimed Property auctions off orphaned items from safety deposit boxes, like the salt-and-pepper shakers left behind by Udavilla Rutherford when she died. But in this particular case-- Lot 180-- a reporter couldn't let it go.
Kenny Malone profiles the artist behind some of the most widely seen art work in South Florida -- an artist few know anything about. John McMahon, a police composite sketch artist. The police department does not keep statistics on this, but America's Most Wanted estimates that McMahon's drawings may have helped apprehend almost 800 suspects. Listen to the story here.
Once the trophy pet of narcos, a few mountain lions still live in private homes in Miami. WLRN Miami Herald reporter and Under the Sun producer Kenny Malone found one, in Kendall Village, and discovered the neighbor was not amused.
For the third installment of our regular "What's Up with South Florida?" feature, you voted to find out the story behind a bizarre sign. Kenny Malone was on the case of the mysterious misspelling outside of Hialeah Senior High. Listen to the full story here.
Friday, July 16, 2010
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