“Men Seeking Men. What Are They Seeking?”

Richard Kirshen, a Miami Beach business owner who does a blues show on Talk City, was having breakfast with his eight-year-old granddaughter, Shelby, at the GreenStreet Cafe in Coconut Grove recently."Somebody left a New Times on the table," Kirshen recalls. "She picked it up, started paging through, and then said:...
By Chuck StrouseApril 13, 2010
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Richard Kirshen, a Miami Beach business owner who does a blues show on Talk City, was having breakfast with his eight-year-old granddaughter, Shelby, at the GreenStreet Cafe in Coconut Grove recently.

“Somebody left a New Times on the table,” Kirshen recalls. “She picked it up, started paging through, and then said: “Papa, it says here: Men seeking men, What are they

seeking?” 

“Service in Coconut Grove isn’t that good, so we had some time to kill… I said there are a lot of articles in this newspaper that you wouldn’t read anywhere else.”

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So she kept reading, and he snapped the above picture. Not bad at all, Richard. Thanks.

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Chuck Strouse is the former editor in chief of Miami New Times. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes and won dozens of other awards. He is an honors graduate of Brown University and has worked at newspapers including the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times.

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