Latest Stories

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  South Beach LGBTQ Icon Henrietta Robinson Dies of COVID-19

  April 6 at 11:15 a.m.

  Robinson, who is among the first out transgender women in South Florida, died Friday after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

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  Dining Community Mourns Loss of Sun Sentinel Restaurant Reviewer John Tanasychuk

  March 20 at 9 a.m.

  John Tanasychuk passed away from pneumonia on March 17, 2020.

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  Walter Mercado (1932–2019), Always and Forever a Man of the People

  Monday, November 4, 2019 at 9 a.m.

  For a few years after moving to Miami from Spain, my father worked as a photographer. One of his adventures led to his spending a couple of days with Walter Mercado when the famed Latino TV astrologer visited Miami in 1974.

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  Former FIU Journalism Professor Leaves Lasting Legacy of Empathy

  Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 2 p.m.

  Moses Shumow had the office next to mine at Florida International University. A tenured professor and the driving force behind our digital program, he had a breadth and depth of knowledge about journalism education and FIU politics that was immensely helpful in my transition from an editor at the Los Angeles Times to the occasionally Byzantine world of academia.

• Jose Pla, 1948-2019: Enriqueta's Owner Leaves Behind a Legacy of Cafecito and Community

  Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 2 p.m.

  Jose Luis Pla Elias, the owner of Miami's most beloved sandwich shop, has died.  The 70-year-old owner of Enriqueta's Sandwich Shop, died on the evening of September 25, according to Miami publicist JennyLee Molina, a friend of the family who held many 305 Cafecito events at the eatery.

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  Miami's Culinary Community Mourns the Passing of Ghee's Eddy Alicea

  Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 8 a.m.

  Family, friends, and the staff of both locations of Ghee Indian Kitchen are reeling this week following the untimely passing of 27-year-old cook Eduardo "Eddy" Alicea. He celebrated his birthday Saturday night at the Design District location where he works before heading out for a night in Miami Beach. He never made it home after a car crash early Sunday morning.