The World According To Sound
When you stop and listen to your surroundings, what do you hear? We take sound for granted because it’s around us all the time. But when you are forced to listen in a different way, you hear a...
View ArticleThe Everglades Runs Through Their Blood
The Jones family has lived in the Everglades for five generations. They’ve made their livelihoods in Mack’s Fish Camp, a spit of marshland that straddles the county line between Broward and Miami-Dade...
View ArticleChildhood Memories And A Hialeah Landmark
Producer and Miami Herald multimedia journalist Michael Alen has long been fascinated with a strange building in the middle of Hialeah. Alen remembers seeing the building as a toddler on his drives...
View ArticleThe Miami Heat And Their City: Up To The Challenge To Redefine
The NBA Finals have turned the nation’s attention–and cameras– toward Miami and Miami Beach. As the Miami Heat try to clinch the finals, Jordan Melnick wants to remind us all that there’s more to Miami...
View ArticleKindness Awards
One of the themes that’s emerged as we commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew , is how the storm inspired a lot of good intentions , as well as just pure kindness. In 2002, Homestead...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Little Palm Tree That Couldn't
This is the sad story of a very tall tree. "This one right here," says Patrick Griffith, slapping his hand on a rough, grayish trunk, " coccothrinax barbadensis ." Griffith is executive director at the...
View ArticleFrom Miami-Dade To Broward, The Case For Being Mindful When Renaming Counties
Amid chatter that Broward County is considering changing its name to reflect the county’s biggest city-- Fort Lauderdale-- this all got me thinking about the names that we give to our counties in South...
View ArticleDinner Set Gang
The writer Somerset Maugham called Florida a “sunny place for shady people.” A couple of decades before Bernard Madoff hit Palm Beach, a pair of cat burglars hit mansions up and down the coast. Lyn...
View ArticleWhat’s Up With South Florida?: Inglish Gratis
In our regular What’s Up With South Florida? feature, you decide what we investigate. You voted overwhelmingly for an explanation of the “Inglish Gratis” sign outside of Hialeah High. This photo had...
View ArticleEpisode 4: Hispanic Versus Latino
Dan Grech gets a government form in the mail and he’s asked to decide: Is he Hispanic, or “a big white guy?” He’s pretty sure he’s not Latino. To sort it all out, he invited demographer Maria Aysa to...
View ArticleThe People Robert Frank Saw
This photo of a forlorn, slightly bored young hotel elevator operator was taken on the beach in 1955, at the Sherry Frontenac Hotel (65th and Collins). It has become one of Frank’s most famous...
View ArticleHuman Hair Is Farmers’ Friend
That’s according to Blair Blacker, and he should know. In this story, host Dan Grech visits a warehouse in Florida City with Blacker to have a look at a novel product– mats made from human hair....
View ArticleEpisode 4: Second(hand) Chances
Give Good Works , a Wynwood thrift store and charity, gives your old and gently used items a second chance. However, the point is to give people a second chance. Jennifer Rousseau, who works at the...
View ArticleAlternative Spring Break
It’s a time-honored tradition. Spring breakers descend on Miami from across the nation this time of year to guzzle beer, work on their tanlines and hit the clubs. Or there’s Alternative Spring Break,...
View ArticlePremiere Episode
In our first episode, you’ll hear the voices of a Holocaust survivor who made pool cues in Miami Beach and a migrant tomato picker who struggles for higher wages in Immokalee. After losing her son,...
View ArticleFree Divers Add Depth To Their Lives
South Florida is becoming a freediving hub, thanks in part to renowned Czech diver Martin Stepanek , who founded Freediving Instructors International in Fort Lauderdale. His partner Niki Roderick– also...
View ArticleFive Questions: Peter Zalewski
Five years ago, Peter Zalewski was working as a business journalist, but he jumped into real estate before the condo crisis hit and founded Condo Vultures. His provacatively named real estate firm has...
View ArticleLetter From Key West: Holiday Parade
This story originally aired in December 2009. Writer Nancy Klingener lives in Key West. Every year, she looks forward to a parade which marks the arrival of the holiday season. She says, “In South...
View Article"You Voiced My Childhood:" Decades Later, Skeletor Impacts His 80s Fans At...
The 2018 Florida Supercon brought a cornucopia of superhero and comic fans together inside the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale. Costume connoisseurs spent months preparing, spending...
View ArticleSinger Jimmy Buffett Supports Graham And Environmental Activism With Free...
Many South Floridians know the suave, summertime vibe of Jimmy Buffett’s ‘Margaritaville,’ which he wrote over 40 years ago on his way down to Key West. But fewer know about Buffett’s passion for...
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