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1996 Stories by Kathy Glasgow

• Eyewitnesses to History

  published December 19, 1996

  Veteran Cuban exile journalist Agustin Tamargo opens his talk show on Radio Mambi this Monday afternoon as usual, by introducing his guests, who... More >>

• Clinical Depression

  published November 14, 1996

  To scores of other Dade County residents who've been fighting on the same fronts, a chronicle of Lucinda's life for the past eight months sounds... More >>

• Copping an Excuse

  published October 17, 1996

  Info: Copping an Excuse Faced with evidence their cop shop is in disarray, town fathers practice some first-rate denial By Kathy... More >>

• Hot Off the Presses

  published October 10, 1996

  Call it the case of the purloined papers -- 40 Sunday newspapers, mysteriously waylaid two and a half weeks ago on their way from London to Miami.... More >>

• Freedom Fighters

  published September 19, 1996

  What was perhaps the biggest disappointment in all of Diobelys Hurtado's 24 years came in the spring of 1992, when the coach of Cuba's powerhouse... More >>

• Give It Arrest

  published August 29, 1996

  The men who wait every morning just east of the Palmetto Expressway know the routine. "Once a month," says Carlos Sanchez, a broad-faced Managuan... More >>

• Dangerous Liaisons

  published August 22, 1996

  The half-block stretch on the north side of Bird Road beyond 68th Avenue is known as a gathering place for gay men, mostly young gay men. A... More >>

• Rhaynetta's Cause: The Epilogue

  published August 22, 1996

  Rhaynetta Cheatham, AIDS outreach worker and often-acerbic advocate for victims of AIDS in Miami's black community, died early this past Wednesday... More >>

• Summons Like It Hot

  published August 15, 1996

  The August meeting of the Sweetwater City Council has been called to order in the town's cozy wood-paneled council chambers. TV cameras are... More >>

• King of Clubs

  published July 25, 1996

  For a rare fifteen minutes, on-stage at the Club Tropigala in Miami Beach, the fabulous Julio Iglesias is actually taking questions by cellular... More >>

• Fume It May Concern

  published July 4, 1996

  Miguel Haddad's Auto Diesel Service Plaza, way out on West Okeechobee Road in Hialeah Gardens, has been the trucker's friend for 28 years now. The... More >>

• Primate Serenade

  published June 13, 1996

  The sun bores into your back as you trudge along the winding path to the gorilla cage at Monkey Jungle. Macaques scamper on wire mesh overhead,... More >>

• Rhaynetta's Cause

  published May 30, 1996

  The sunlight this February afternoon is piercing and yellow, and a gusty wind shoves around the crumpled litter on NW Seventeenth Avenue, outside... More >>

• When Tush Comes to Shove

  published May 2, 1996

  You might say Jorge Delara got a wild hair up his ass a few years back. A 35-year-old free-lance graphic artist who lives in Hialeah, Delara... More >>

• The 11th Commandment

  published April 4, 1996

  Like many compelling ideas, Love Your Neighbor revealed itself in a vision. In January 1994, Jim Ward and six long-time friends made a pilgrimage... More >>

• Where the Girls Are, Part 2

  published March 28, 1996

  Someone called the City of Miami police just after midnight March 5 reporting that a man was crawling toward NW 79th Street from the unlit, trash-... More >>

• Foam Alone

  published March 28, 1996

  On a six-foot-square piece of aluminum that leans against a wall behind Mario Del Castillo's house in West Hialeah, the words Calle Ocho 96 are... More >>

• United They Stand

  published March 14, 1996

  We've been training for this moment not just the past few hours or days, but for the past few years," Monica Russo declares emphatically, her... More >>

• A Major Bad Hair Day

  published March 7, 1996

  More than 50 people, many dressed for church, packed State Rep. James Bush's Biscayne Boulevard office this past Sunday with one thing on their... More >>

• Police Story

  published February 8, 1996

  Just another audition: On a Sunday afternoon Omar Caraballo shows up at a windowless North Miami warehouse to read for a part in a potential TV... More >>

• Victor Victorious

  published February 8, 1996

  Victor Van Gilst appeared in Dade County Court this past November 30 to answer charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing an emergency vehicle.... More >>

• Which Twin Has the Sony? Part 2

  published January 11, 1996

  It's official: Miami's own Gabriel Castillo is the one and only Gaby Gabriel. With an assist from entertainment lawyer Richard Wolfe, the... More >>

• Sorry Buddy, the Employee Lot's a Mile Up Collins, on Your Left

  published January 4, 1996

  The employees of the posh Bal Harbour Shops are used to treating their well-heeled customers like royalty, as indeed some of them are. But many... More >>