Jon Secada unveiled his sponsored meter in vibrant South Beach. The Homeless Awareness Meters and Super Meters, designed by artist Romero Britto, will be placed in high-traffic areas around Miami-Dade County in addition to the ones that have already been unveiled by the Homeless Trust during the past year. The goal for these meters is [...]
We all have a way to get involved in our community, whether it’s by helping children, the elderly or the homeless. Here’s a photo taken of The Doctor’s Charter School Choir at one of the homes from the annual Holiday Walk in Miami Shores – organized by The Heidi Hewes Chapter of The Woman’s Cancer [...]
(or) Come to Jamaica, Mon – Before It Disappears Another regrettable casualty of last month’s midterms, in which millions of stupid voters chose to sit on their asses and stay home while even stupider ones turned out to dial back America’s advance into the 21st Century: climate change prevention. I thought you’d like to know [...]
Wreckers, Slugs and All That In days of old, raffish folk eking a living from meager coastal margins would light bonfires—even erect an entire faux lighthouse replete with beckoning beam—to lead sailing ships astray. Once the doomed vessel foundered, these wreckers, by name, carted away any cargo that floated ashore. (The crews’ fate can only [...]
This must be the silly season in the book publishing world. I refer to the public leaders-cum-authors that have come crawling out of the woodwork with justifications / excuses / revisions for their past conduct. One’s memoirs begin more like those of a Hollywood celeb fresh out of the Betty Ford clinic rather than of [...]
People in the Community You Should Know – Daniell Washington Who are you? My name is Daniell Washington but most people know me as Danni. I’m 23 years old…but will be 24 at the end of December. With Jamaican and Bahamian heritage, I have always been deeply rooted in my faith in God, power of [...]
Call me crazy, but I consider a big juicy burger to be a comfort food – it’s my interpretation of meat and potatoes a la Americana. And nothing like a 10 oz, prime angus beef, Hotel California burger from the epic Burger and Beer Joint in South Beach. Is your mouth watering yet? This photo [...]
I’ve always thought that the teenaged and 20-something computer hackers that think it’s cool breaking into and sabotaging a national security network like, say, the Pentagon’s shouldn’t be slapped on the wrist by some judge and sent to their room without dessert, as it were, grounded with probation. No, I want ‘em sent to Leavenworth [...]
People in the Community You Should Know – Margaret Lake Arts Aesthete Who are you? Margaret Lake- Miami convert and the Director at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts since 2007. I am a trained poet and visual artist. I attended Westminster College in Salt Lake, my hometown, and I [...]
We’re not talking about drugs or cereal Let’s take a trip down Memory Lane. Remember the K bus? That peripatetic beast wandered all over the Beach connecting out-of-the-way neighborhoods and off-the-beaten-track byways like a branch line connects with a main line. What we liked about it—besides its passing through Orchard Park, we mean—was it got [...]
It’s not unusual for Miami to have special art installations that make people think, especially around ART BASEL. The Pink Snails REgeneration Art Project is one of them, 45 huge pink snails around Miami Beach designed to inspire conversations about recycling and its environmental impact. Talk about an unusual visual! I am in the process [...]
Gather together with me now at my Thanksgiving table to share our blessings from 2010. (But this ain’t gonna be like your Grandma’s.) Despite our trials and tribulations, our economic hard times and anxieties over our futures, let’s give thanks – – That we aren’t going to be treated to the ass-kicking that Carlos the [...]
