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Florida Marine Patrol Ofcr. Jason Lundy recognized the sponge poachers from a distance as he motored outside the northern boundaries of Biscayne National Park. He knew their...
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The Merrick Educational Center in Coral Gables is unique among Miami-Dade County public schools. Since the early Eighties, its teachers, counselors, and administrators have...
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In the white-tile living room of his sparsely furnished two-story house in Kendall, Roberto Martino is watching a video of his band, T-Vice, playing at Carnival 2000 last...
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There are times when it's awfully difficult to explain why one lives in Miami. Like now, during this period of embarrassing Elianmania, with the national media trumpeting the...
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In the rich mythology of The New Yorker, a periodical renowned for the quality of its writing and the quirks of its writers, no legend carries more weight than that of Joseph...
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The world's population of frogs, toads, and other amphibians is disappearing, according to a study released two weeks ago in the journal Nature. Although wart-haters might...
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"The sort of life which I had previous to this popular success was one that required endurance, a life of clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight...
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Renee Osceola was born in a swamp, saved by a medicine man, and raised in a place where people insisted that green things were blue. On a recent Wednesday night, four decades...
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More than twenty people crowded into the tiny front room of a modest Little Havana home on a sunny Sunday. They were drawn from a wide spectrum of ages and skin colors. Most...
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Glenn Danzig is a living, breathing cartoon character. No, really, just take a look at the cover of the new Danzig album, which pictures the singer emerging from a bog like...
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Fast food joints failed to deliver a knockout punch to diners, but they did have those American institutions on the ropes and looking hopeless for a while. That was back in...
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Although its themes are about as revelatory as those of the average Cathy comic strip (clothes don't fit, job too busy, male not clairvoyant, AACK!), there's something...
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When is a room not a room? When it's a catalogue. Sound confusing? Get this: ROOM is a New York City-based catalogue created two years ago by former House & Garden style...
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We've been seeing some interesting stuff happening at the New Gallery, the only art gallery on the University of Miami campus. In the past the exhibition hall was used mainly...
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As the Elian Gonzalez media juggernaut began approaching warp speed over the past few weeks, some in Miami's Cuban-American community expressed displeasure with the portrait...
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It's been somewhat gratifying to page through the nation's mainstream media this past week and discover editorials from St. Louis to Seattle, all filled with sober centrists...
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It was bound to happen. After nearly a decade of regional this and local that, restaurateurs and chefs have tired of self-imposed provincial restrictions. Suddenly it seems...
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It seems incredible that an oxymoron such as heroin chic ever entered our lexicon. But the film Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street should kill all appeal for that...
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Within segments of the Cuban-American community there is a belief that Elian Gonzalez is a messiah of sorts, protected by God and sent here to expedite the fall of Fidel...
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The film trans, which was lauded at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals, finally has an American distributor. Some say it wasn't picked up sooner because the...
