Email Author Emily Witt

Awards

• 2007 - Awards of Excellence/North Central Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published April 13, 2006

  "Band of Outsiders"

• 2007 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published March 2, 2006

  "Never Forget You"

• 2007 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published April 13, 2006

  "Band of Outsiders"

• 2007 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published April 13, 2006

  "Band of Outsiders"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 19, 2006

  "Mock Trial"

• 2007 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published April 13, 2006

  "Band of Outsiders"

• 2007 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published March 2, 2006

  "Never Forget You"

• 2007 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published October 19, 2006

  "Mock Trial"

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2006 Stories by Emily Witt

• Executing Angel

  published December 14, 2006

  Three days before Christmas 1979, Angel "Sammy" Toro, Angel Diaz, and another man entered the Velvet Swing, a dimly lit, sparsely populated lounge... More >>

• Make Believe

  published December 14, 2006

  When a theater is packed with children instead of adults, it becomes a site not of high culture but of mass fidgeting. On a recent Wednesday... More >>

• Breakaway

  published November 30, 2006

  The drive from Kendall Ice Arena to Fort Myers Skatium takes about two and a half hours. On a late October Saturday at sunset, the pilot of the... More >>

• Risky Business

  published November 16, 2006

  Risky Business Filed under: News When the corrections counselor tells what it's like to walk past the cell blocks at the... More >>

• Mock Trial

  published October 19, 2006

  Awad grew up on a cattle farm in Ethiopia, a member of that country's underrepresented and sometimes persecuted ethnic minority, the Oromo. He had... More >>

• Douglas Road Goes Off the (Metro) Rails

  published October 12, 2006

  Douglas Road Goes Off the (Metro) Rails Filed under: Scanner In... More >>

• Mining the Store

  published September 28, 2006

  Mining the Store Filed under: Flotsam Every once in a while,... More >>

• Waterfront Access Is for Commies

  published September 14, 2006

  Waterfront Access Is for Commies Filed under: Scanner When the Miami City Commission met this past week to discuss... More >>

• Cadillacs and Basketball

  published September 14, 2006

  When Money Malc was still swaddled in diapers, his mom kept him quiet by placing the radio in the crib. Now he's grown up, a big man who sports... More >>

• The Kiss

  published September 7, 2006

  Poor Alex. With his baby face and soul patch, the sensitive heir to a successful Napa Valley vineyard is alone in a world of malevolent usurpers... More >>

• A Literary Upstart from Miami?

  published August 17, 2006

  For a young writer, publishing a story in The New Yorker's Début Fiction issue and locking down a book deal are the first steps... More >>

• Water Fight

  published August 10, 2006

  Every day fifteen wells in Northwest Miami-Dade pump more than 150 million gallons of water from the Biscayne Aquifer, South Florida's sole source... More >>

• Sandwich and a Dictator to Go

  published August 3, 2006

  As midnight approached this past Monday, Radio Mambí host Ninoska Pérez Castellón cautioned against speculation of Fidel... More >>

• Tour de Dope

  published July 27, 2006

  There was something fishy about the skinny, long-limb, shaved-head stranger who appeared in the parking lot of Macy's at Aventura Mall one steamy... More >>

• The Drink-'Em-Up World Cup

  published June 29, 2006

  Not long after noon on June 11 at the Playwright Irish Pub in South Beach, the predominantly pro-American crowd was silent. It had nothing to root... More >>

• Local Boy Makes Food

  published June 22, 2006

  Late afternoon on May 5 in a windowless, wood-paneled North Miami office, Stephen Brooks feeds his family and friends. His grandparents sit on a... More >>

• Pearl of the Antilles

  published June 8, 2006

  East Caravella. It sounds like a meadow in Narnia but looks like a suburb of Phoenix. East Caravella is a complex of townhouses situated along a... More >>

• Mayor “Money” Diaz

  published April 27, 2006

  Miamians may have been surprised to see his honor Manny Diaz among a group of environmentally conscious mayors in this May's Vanity Fair, a... More >>

• Already Home (?)

  published April 20, 2006

  There is a certain poignancy to holding an immigration rally in a place called Homestead. The city's name dates back to 1898, when the government... More >>

• Band of Outsiders

  published April 13, 2006

  Arainia's parents expected a healthy baby. Her first moments of life seemed to confirm their hopes. On the outside she looked perfect, with downy... More >>

• Practice Safe Sex

  published April 13, 2006

  South Beach is the casual-sex capital of America — or at least that's the reputation. So it was a surprise when, this past March, a sign... More >>

• The Rub

  published March 23, 2006

  When the Rub — a Brooklyn DJ crew comprising DJ Eleven, DJ Cosmo Baker, and DJ Ayres — performs at the new Wynwood venue Bullfrog Eatz... More >>

• Off the Beach!

  published March 16, 2006

  We empathize with tourists: If you don't live in Miami, it is lovely to sit poolside outside a hotel and drink complimentary cocktails from one... More >>

• Never Forget You

  published March 2, 2006

  Isabel's plans have gone horribly awry. The buxom brunet, her frosty highlighted hair in gravity-defying layers, had one mission: Seduce and marry... More >>

• Beach Blanket Beethoven

  published February 2, 2006

  Stacey Glassman, blond and enthusiastic, teetered on a stage by the pool of the Raleigh Hotel in a cotton-candy pink, Marilyn Monroe-inspired... More >>