When you stop and listen to your surroundings, what do you hear? Under the Sun's Alicia Zuckerman headed to South Beach to capture the typical noise of a day at the park. Can you identify what you hear? What sounds tell a story about the South Florida you know?
An update on the parking garage that's all glam. Eleven eleven draws architects, tourists and brides... and makes the pages of the New York Times.
The parking garage at 1111 Lincoln Road is a place to leave your car, or buy a book, or roll out your yoga mat. Under The Sun's Ruth Morris reports on how a parking garage is challenging assumptions about public space.
Head Architect Christine Binswanger talks about the "eleven eleven" parking garage -- why it was so important NOT to build a box, and why the construction team did NOT seek publicity.
Listen as Terrence Riley, the former head of the Miami Art Museum, explains why public spaces are so important. He discusses an example from the book The Catcher In The Rye, and reads from the passage.
Jeremy Glazer is a writer, a legislative analyst and that rare breed-- a Miami native. He reads his story, Souvenir, about an encounter with two tourists on South Beach.
Artist at Lincoln Road Theater in Miami Beach
We invited Caroline Lamarre to share her photos of Sleepless Night with us for this week's SFPOW post.
Miami Beach was the end of the line for serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But five years earlier, a different serial killer, this one from Austria, led police on an international manhunt that ended in South Beach.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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