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.
The ringing of bells is a sound you might associate with the holidays, with majestic church towers or with small European villages. So forget all of that. The bells at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Miami are a little different. Listen to the story by Alicia Zuckerman and Kenny Malone.
Two best friends at a Miami high school decide to pursue an Old Florida dream: to become farmers. In the process, they learn lessons about life, loss, and redemption. Listen here.
Miami student Chelsea Rodriguez on the things Miami participants in a state agricultural wear should and should not wear to fit in the with the rest of the crowd. “We don’t want to stand out,” she says. 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. We'll be playing stories to commemorate the one year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti throughout January.
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.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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