Loyalty Oath
Journalist and professor Madeleine Blais contemplates a move back to South Florida for a job as a visiting professor: "My time in South Florida coincided with the worst period in its history." Listen to her personal essay here.
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Miami Outlaw
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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.
Lost Between Two Nations
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
When an earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the United States stopped deporting Haitian immigrants to the devastated nation. But deportations resumed in January, and Franco Coby, convicted of selling drugs, found himself banished from the country he grew up in since the age of 6. Now he lives in a country that is foreign to him.
Fiction: Dolphins, Oysters and Crabs
Thursday, January 5, 2012
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.
Diana Abu-Jaber on Sharing the Table During the Holidays
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Floridians are the hosts of the nation during the holidays, as snowbirds land here for the season. Listen to author Diana Abu-Jaber’s essay on her family’s heritage of hosting guests.
How Wilton Manors Came Out
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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”
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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.
“Imagined anthology” of flight and escape
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Author and former Miami Herald columnist Ana Menendez is back from Amsterdam for the Miami Book Fair International. She talks about her new book, Adios Happy Homeland, which deals with the themes of dislocation and exile.
What’s up with the naked carpet guy?
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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.
Miami Stories
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- Miami Outlaw
- A snowbird’s letter from Carlan Mobile Home Park in Davie
- Walter & Edith, by Jeremy Glazer
- All in a Day's Work: A man and his mangoes
- The Everglades runs through their blood
- Fiction: Dolphins, Oysters and Crabs
- Don Bailey Strikes Iconic Pose Again
- Surviving survival: Earthquake victims in limbo
- Front-row seat to Death Row execution
- What's up with the naked carpet guy?
- Wendi: I'm not sure what kind of friend won't go down to ...
- Steve: What a powerful and heartbreaking story. It's almo...
- james: I have been a big fan of Bettie Page and of Bunny ...
- Alexis: It almost broke my heart to hear this story. I eve...
- Debbie: I volunteered as a pet pal at the Broward Humane S...
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