Ship captains coming in and out of Port Miami turn their ships over to very skilled harbor pilots. Harbor pilots have to know the waters around Port Miami so well that they can draw a map of them from memory. Listen to the story here.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Until Wednesday, school officials at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School—where Trayvon Martin was an 11th-grader—had yet to publicly acknowledge his death. The school’s delayed reaction to Martin’s death is in stark contrast to how it has memorialized students in the past. And it raises questions about a school’s responsibility to grieving students. Listen to the story here.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
"There aren't a lot of places in the world where the dastardly act of bank robbing is viewed as a form of local entertainment. But in Key West, we tend to appreciate humor that comes from odd vectors. Also, we have a wealth of consistently dumb-ass bank robbers." Listen to Mark Hedden's Letter from Key West here.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
It seems like this would be the perfect place to ride a bike. It's not. Aaron Cohen's tragic death on the Rickenbacker Causeway revived a debate about how drivers and cyclists share--or don't share--the roads. In the spirit of fostering more peaceful co-existence, we asked both groups what they'd like to tell each other. Listen here.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Alicia Zuckerman interviews Robert Battle, the new artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Battle grew up Liberty City and he remembers being inspired when he first saw the legendary dance company perform at the Jackie Gleason Theater. Listen to the interview here.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Alicia Zuckerman interviews the author of the new book Green Card Stories, along with a high school principal who used to pick strawberries as a migrant worker. Listen to the interview here.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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.
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.
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.
WLRN contributor Terence Cantarella begins his journey through Miami-Dade's canal system by canoe on Monday, April 16.
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