Just in case yesterday's news of a bounce on the stock market gave you a glimmer of hope, Riptide is here to remind you that your future is bleak and depressing. The CBC recently compared Florida to "a terrified cardiac patient," lying awake at night, praying the angina will pass. "The confidence games here were ruinous," writes Neil Macdonald. "The
housing fraud was industrial scale. The economic shortsightedness
bordered on lunacy."
Macdonald hops from Lehigh Acres ("Some of these homes--past
WikicommonsHunter S. Thompson at the 1988 Fair​Artists have Basel. Filmmakers have MIFF. Geniuses have the Book Fair.My inner nerd (well, maybe it's outer, too...) did the running man this morning when it saw PR-extraordinaire Lisa Palley's email announcing the Author List for the 2009 Miami Book Fair. (November 8 - 15, 2009)The fact that last year was the Silver anniversary of the fair and this year, if you haven't heard, ain't such a good year to be a non-profit arts organization means that
