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Ghana

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Annual Study: Cuba Has the Worst Press Freedom in the Americas

    ​The annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index is out, and Cuba continues to have the least freedom of the press in our part of the globe. No other country in the Americas even comes close to Cuba's lowly ranking. Meanwhile, the United States fell 27 places in the rankings in a worrisom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Full Schedule for Afro Roots World Music Festival 2011

    Ghana's soul rebel Rocky Dawani.​Can you hear that slow-building beat rumbling through the streets? It doesn't matter whether you're downtown, over in the Design District, or holed up in the Grove. There's no avoiding it ... You can feel it in your feet, your knees, and your gut. For the 13th ye ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2011

    Walmart greenwashing: Workers pay the price

    Ghana's soul rebel Rocky Dawani.​Can you hear that slow-building beat rumbling through the streets? It doesn't matter whether you're downtown, over in the Design District, or holed up in the Grove. There's no avoiding it ... You can feel it in your feet, your knees, and your gut. For the 13th ye ... More >>

  • News

    July 15, 2010

    Louis Maxwell's forgotten murder, Part 1

    Ghana's soul rebel Rocky Dawani.​Can you hear that slow-building beat rumbling through the streets? It doesn't matter whether you're downtown, over in the Design District, or holed up in the Grove. There's no avoiding it ... You can feel it in your feet, your knees, and your gut. For the 13th ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    World Cup 2010: The Cream Is Rising

    Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images​The U.S. defeat at the hands of Ghana this past Saturday was the inevitable letdown after the euphoric last-minute victory over Algeria last week. There are a lot of questions looming now for this team, with the coaching staff, some of its players, and whether thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Around Town: Tattoolapalooza, Banksy, USA v. Ghana, Spike Lee, and Kid Sister

    Maluca plays Grand Central on Saturday.​FridayTattoo artists from all over country will descend on Miami's downtown Hyatt this weekend for the three-day Tattoolapalooza. There'll be tattoo contests, marauding evil clowns, inking seminars, gnarly bikers, and goth punk bands. If you're going to get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Watch Soccer With Cool Kids at Bar's USA-Ghana Party

    ​When it comes to hipsters, there's a very short list of sports about which they give even the tiniest shit. (This whole phenomenon can be linked back to the punk notion that jocks are nothing but incipient fascists.) Really, you can narrow it down to skateboarding, drug hunting, and soccer. Yeah, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Four Games Away From the Big Win

    ​When it comes to hipsters, there's a very short list of sports about which they give even the tiniest shit. (This whole phenomenon can be linked back to the punk notion that jocks are nothing but incipient fascists.) Really, you can narrow it down to skateboarding, drug hunting, and soccer. Yeah, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    World Cup 2010: U.S. vs. Algeria, Never Say Die!

    ​Team USA is moving on the knockout round of the World Cup the only way America knows how - with drama and determination and come-from-behind heroics! After overcoming even more crappy FIFA officiating, an unyielding Algerian goalkeeper, England's 1-0 win over Slovenia, goal differentials, and Kom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Hershey Highway Leads To Child Labor

    ​This past Tuesday was declared I Love Reese's Day by Hershey's -- the makers of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (which reminds me: more news forthcoming soon on Short Order's I Love Short Order Day). The groups Global Exchange, Green America Today, Oasis USA, and The International Labor Rights Forum d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Top 5 Really Strange Foods of South America and the Caribbean

    via Liz and Dave on TravelpodGuess what.​People to the south of Miami think America's chemical-laden, hormone-injected, infinite shelf-lifed, processed, packaged, industrially produced, lab-tested, factory-farmed food is crazy.But they eat jungle creatures. Now that's weird. Here are our top 5 rea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Top 10 Sodas From Around the World

    unattributedFact checked with bougerolle.net​10. Pee Cola from Ghana - At first we thought it was just an internet joke, but we found two seemingly legitimate sources that back it up.So.... Drink Pee Cola.

  • News

    February 18, 2010

    The Stripper Mobile rolled into Miami Super Bowl weekend, and no one noticed

    unattributedFact checked with bougerolle.net​10. Pee Cola from Ghana - At first we thought it was just an internet joke, but we found two seemingly legitimate sources that back it up.So.... Drink Pee Cola.

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Paradise Farms Lazy Sunday Lunch In Pictures and Oyster Mushroom Growing Sneak Preview

    Jacob KatelGabriele Marewski pledges allegiance to the green.​Paradise Farms is a premiere South Florida grower of specialty produce, certified organic micro-greens and edible flowers for the local restaurant industry. Gabriele Marewski is the head of the farm and is hosting a series of "lazy Sund ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2009

    Funk up Your Friday

    Jacob KatelGabriele Marewski pledges allegiance to the green.​Paradise Farms is a premiere South Florida grower of specialty produce, certified organic micro-greens and edible flowers for the local restaurant industry. Gabriele Marewski is the head of the farm and is hosting a series of "lazy Sund ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 5, 2009

    Out of Africa

    Wolfgang Roth tells the history of a continent.

  • Music

    May 29, 2008

    Various Artists

    Blackstars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation (Outhere)

  • News

    May 29, 2008

    Finally Florida

    A rogue state meets presidential candidates who pine for its fickle heart.

  • Film

    January 31, 2008

    American Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance '08

    Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    Grady and the Champ

    For better and worse, Muhammad Ali left his mark on a generation of Miami boxers

  • Calendar

    July 12, 2007

    All Hail Nana

    A king from Ghana visits Jungle Island

  • Music

    February 23, 2006

    Family Affair

    The controversial Bob Marley Festival returns

  • Music

    January 12, 2006

    Our Little Corner of the World

    The controversial Bob Marley Festival returns

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2004

    Shining Moments

    The controversial Bob Marley Festival returns

  • Calendar

    May 8, 2003

    Stage Tykes

    Tiny dancers honor thy mothers

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2003

    Gal Power

    Express yourself girls, in drumming, painting, belly dancing

  • Music

    September 5, 2002

    Music from the Morning of World Music

    The good, the bad, and the boring on re-released Nonesuch Explorer Series

  • Music

    May 30, 2002

    Heavy Heavy Heavy

    From baaad Afro-rock to really good highlife, dig this Afro-pop

  • Dining

    November 22, 2001

    Mon, That's Mixed

    Chinese Rasta curry that's good to go

  • Music

    October 19, 2000

    Secrets Kept

    Finally an exhibition you can dance to

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Ring Cycle

    Miami boasts a boxing legend who has kept on swinging through good times and bad. He's the king of the clubs. He's Tuto Zabala.

  • Music

    June 29, 2000

    Various Artists

    Safarini: In Transit (Smithsonian Folkways)

  • News

    March 2, 2000

    Not Just for Kicks

    As a minority recruiter for the U.S. national soccer team, Juan Carlos Michia doesn't just love soccer, he lives it

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    In the Rough

    A half-century before the Tiger Woods era, black Miamians fought a losing battle to hit the links

  • Calendar

    November 25, 1999

    Art Mart

    Timbuktu African & Caribbean Marketplace

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    The Secret Life of J.M. Denis

    By day he manages the parking facilities at the airport. By night he's Jan Mapou, Miami's guardian of Haitian culture.

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    A Historic Dip

    Witnesses to the segregated history of Virginia Beach tell a sorry but inspiring tale

  • News

    December 25, 1997

    The Rashids' Last Stand

    Nearly four years ago a couple of intrepid entrepreneurs opened Zanjabil in hopes of inspiring their neighbors in the black Grove. They're still hoping.

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    News of the Weird

    Nearly four years ago a couple of intrepid entrepreneurs opened Zanjabil in hopes of inspiring their neighbors in the black Grove. They're still hoping.

  • News

    February 13, 1997

    News of the Weird

    Nearly four years ago a couple of intrepid entrepreneurs opened Zanjabil in hopes of inspiring their neighbors in the black Grove. They're still hoping.

  • Culture

    September 12, 1996

    Things to Come

    Nearly four years ago a couple of intrepid entrepreneurs opened Zanjabil in hopes of inspiring their neighbors in the black Grove. They're still hoping.

  • News

    May 2, 1996

    The Voice of Haiti

    Paris, Ghana, Senegal, Miami. Poet Felix Morisseau-Leroy spent half his life in exile, but his heart never left home.

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