Most Popular
-
Perez Hilton Picks a Fight
Haters and lawsuits threaten Miami's infamous celebrity gossip export.
-
The Murder of Master Do
Ten murders and Haitian gangs roil the quiet town of North Miami.
-
A Felony with That Croqueta?
Criminals are everywhere at the nation's best-known Cuban eatery.
-
Lambs to Slaughter
Miami's Catholic leaders covered for a priest who drugged and sodomized at least a dozen boys.
-
Che Guevara Who?
Cubans get pissed, an artist gets even, and the supreme prosecutor of the Cuban revolution gets booted from Dadeland.
-
A Pregnant Pause (12)
Drink heavily and don't worry. That baby will be fine.
-
Shirley Q. Liquor's Racist Scum (12)
Ban ugliness from Miami Beach.
-
Carbonell Cold Shoulder (8)
We're all losers at South Florida's biggest awards show.
-
Sour Milk (7)
Tennessee Williams gets walloped in the Design District.
-
The Murder of Master Do (6)
Ten murders and Haitian gangs roil the quiet town of North Miami.
-
Perez Hilton Picks a Fight
Haters and lawsuits threaten Miami's infamous celebrity gossip export.
-
The Murder of Master Do
Ten murders and Haitian gangs roil the quiet town of North Miami.
-
A Felony with That Croqueta?
Criminals are everywhere at the nation's best-known Cuban eatery.
-
Lambs to Slaughter
Miami's Catholic leaders covered for a priest who drugged and sodomized at least a dozen boys.
-
Che Guevara Who?
Cubans get pissed, an artist gets even, and the supreme prosecutor of the Cuban revolution gets booted from Dadeland.
-
Magic City Kitty - Drinking & Fucking...and Punching
08:49AM 04/22/08 -
Episode One: Driving With Levell
08:47AM 04/22/08 -
Over The Weekend - Porn Stars, Bacardi, and Motorcycles
12:04PM 04/21/08 -
Throwback Tuesdays: Manu Chao
09:08AM 04/22/08 -
Nas and Kelis to Sue Miami for $100 Million
07:32PM 04/21/08 -
Last Night: Eisley at the Culture Room
09:04AM 04/21/08
What we are writing about
- Arsht Center
- Bicentennial Park
- Churchill's
- CiFo Art Space
- Coconut Grove
- Coral Gables
- Culture Room
- Design District
- downtown Miami
- Fillmore
- Fort Lauderdale
- Hollywood
- Julia Tuttle Causeway
- Little Haiti
- Little Havana
- Marc Sarnoff
- Miami Art Museum
- Miami Beach
- Miami local art
- Miami local music
- Miami local theater
- PlayStation
- sex offenders
- Studio A
- Tobacco Road
- Ultra Music Festival
- White Room
- Wii
- WMC
- Wynwood
Recent Articles By Francisco Alvarado
-
Easy on Rudy
The newspaper of record plays softball with the schools chief.
-
Scarface in Miami
Twenty-five years ago this month, the gangster epic caused a local stir.
-
Arrested Development
Miami Beach Police just won't let Gregory "Silk" Thomas go straight.
-
Perez Hilton Picks a Fight
Haters and lawsuits threaten Miami's infamous celebrity gossip export.
-
Cops Are Cranky
Miami spends $50K to find out the obvious.
Recent Articles By Michael J. Mooney
-
Field of Schemes
The steroid scandal keeps injecting Palm Beach County.
-
Sarnoff Shmarnoff
Commissioner Marc's claim to a famous bloodline just might be fiction.
-
The She-Zebra
Will Erin Meehan be the first female ref in the NFL?
Recent Articles By Thomas Francis
-
Lambs to Slaughter
Miami's Catholic leaders covered for a priest who drugged and sodomized at least a dozen boys.
National Features
-
Seattle Weekly
Back from Iraq
Camaraderie is in short supply between today's soldiers and older vets.
By Nina Shapiro -
Village Voice
Scientology 's Celebrity Defector
TV star Jason Beghe reveals secrets of the controversial church.
By Tony Ortega -
The Pitch
Spirited Away
Can't get a Catholic exorcism in Kansas City? James Vivian is here to help.
By Peter Rugg -
Riverfront Times
Line Up, Tough Guys
Here's an idea: Let felons become bail bondsmen.
By Keegan Hamilton
Toke It Easy
Continued from page 1
Published: April 17, 2008Cope admits "this technology has been out there for a while," but he blames conspiracy, not inefficiency, for its failure to catch on: "[The oil industry] has done whatever it could to stop the progress and silence the people who know about it."
Culture
Conscientious Couture
A young Fort Lauderdale fashionista foresees an eco-trendy future.
By Thomas Francis
Kyra Jachode is no fool. She can see past South Florida's SUV-clogged freeways, hulking landfills, and pollution-degraded Everglades. Someday, she thinks, even the clotheshorses who gallop between Aventura Mall and South Beach will be inspecting labels not for trendy names but for trendy — and eco-friendly — fabrics.
Okay, so that future might be a long way off. Fortunately Jachode is only 21 years old. She recently won a berth in the South Florida Student Designer Competition, becoming one of six invited to show original designs to the international audience that gathered for last Wednesday's opening night of Miami Fashion Week.
Jachode chose a babydoll dress and matching vest, both made of hemp, bamboo, and silk, with wooden buttons in back sewn on with Egyptian cotton. None of those oil-based synthetic fabrics like polyester. And no materials from Indonesian sweatshops.
"When I started researching eco-friendly materials, it led me to bamboo and hemp, and that led to learning about fair trade and environmentally conscious manufacturing," the young Fort Lauderdale designer says.
This keep-it-real sensibility led her to name the ready-to-wear line Ergostalio: Organic.
There's a booming international market for clothing with eco-snob appeal, though it's yet to wash ashore in the Sunshine State.
"Florida is behind in being environmentally conscious," says Jachode. "There are a couple of boutiques which specialize in [eco-friendly attire], but they have to sell through the Internet to international customers."
After Jachode graduates next month from the Art Institute, she'll prepare a debut collection for the Scarlet Affair in Fort Lauderdale, followed by a ribbon-cutting for her own online boutique. Then it'll just be a matter of waiting. As the polar icecaps melt and the Atlantic Ocean begins swallowing the mainland, sales are bound to improve.
