Email Author Alex Salinas

2000 Stories by Alex Salinas

• Family Affairs

  published July 6, 2000

  If you've ever beat up your little sister just for fun, dyed your hair purple to annoy Dad, or bickered with your spouse over what color shower... More >>

• Oh Boy!

  published June 15, 2000

  FIU history professor Darden Asbury Pyron first got to thinking about the rhinestone-studded enigma that is Liberace while browsing at a... More >>

• Brazil's Film Boom

  published June 1, 2000

  In the prehistoric days of cinema, before the advent of sprawling air-conditioned multiplexes and five-dollar buckets of greasy popcorn, folks... More >>

• Man in the Window

  published May 18, 2000

  Go window-shopping along the sidewalks of Little Havana this weekend, and what might you see? Pastelitos baked to flaky perfection,... More >>

• Poetic Ocean View

  published March 16, 2000

  People strolling down Miami Beach this weekend will have something more interesting to look at than hard bodies working on their tans and old... More >>

• First the Words

  published February 3, 2000

  Ask Rafael Lima, award-winning author, what the secret to his success has been, and he just might respond with a joke. So there's this priest... More >>

• Ocean Notions

  published January 27, 2000

  The obsession begins when you're a little kid strolling along the beach. Suddenly you stop dead in your tracks. Peeking out of the sand is a... More >>